Typescripts and press cuttings by George Wyllie.
Contents: 'Wyllie’s Way', illustrated with a sketch of the ‘Inverclyde Hilton’ [on Pierhead development at Gourock], Gourock Extra, undated, p 3, with 2 typed versions of ‘A view from the old Cloch’, July 1999, 2pp and ‘The Inverclyde Hilton’, July 1999, 2pp, and sketch of Inverclyde Hilton, 1999, 2 copies;' Joseph’s back in town!' [on Joseph Beuys], undated, [1990s?], typescript, 5 pp; 'Concepts of division', 'The Herald', 19 July 1999, press cutting; 'Beuys zone', 'Sunday Herald', 27 June 1999, pp 4-5, press cutting; The Govan Fair, [1998] typescript, 2 pp, with Kvaerner Govan visitor pass, 21 April 1998 and published version ‘The South side Vikings’, 'The Herald', 4 June 1998; 'What Tracey did', undated typescript, and 'Tracey’s chef d’oeuvre', photocopied extract on Tracey Emin, source and date unknown; 'Distance lends detachment', October 1998, typescript, 2 pp, with covering note from George Wyllie, 26 October 1998, and press article by Duncan Macmillan: 'How building a gallery could demolish a myth', 'Scotsman', 21 September 1998; 'A month in the country: a personal view', photocopy of article in 'Country Living', undated, with typescript ‘Air’, undated, 4 pp; 'Comments on modern architecture', March 1997, typescript for 'Scotland on Sunday' survey; Comment on the ‘Armadillo’ building [Glasgow], for 'Architects Journal', 1998; 'Impossible beginnings': contribution to ‘A Scottish childhood’, typescript, [1997], 2 pp, with letter from N Bailey, Killearn, 30 September 1997; 'All cultured out?' 'The Glaswegian', 16 October 1997, press cutting; 'Romance and pride of the city is set in stone' [on Townhead Spire], 'The Herald', 22 September 1997, press cutting; 'Mr Wyllie’s Millennial Marvels', 'The Herald', 1 March 1997, press cutting; 'Where there’s a will ...' [1997], typescript, 3 pp, with press cutting article on the Burrell Collection, 'Scotsman', 24 February 1997; 'Tidying up the attic' [1996], typescript, 4 pp, with published version ‘Snakes and ladders’, 'Scotland on Sunday', 25 August 1996; 'Punching the open air', [1996], typescript, 3 pp, with published version ‘Stir crazy’, 'Scotland on Sunday, 18 August 1996; Sad but true ... review of ‘Reckoning with the past’ exhibition at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland on Sunday', 11 August 1996; Review of British Art Show, undated typescript, several versions, 2 pp, with photocopy of Pantomime Tales, 'The List', 8-21 March 1996, and sketch of rabbits, 1996; 'White elephants and open-top buses' [1996], typescript, 2 pp, with published version ‘Princely virtues’, 'The Herald', 15 February 1996 [on Patrick Geddes and Scots College, Montpellier]; 'Building hope to heal scars of war' [on Hiroshima installation], 'The Herald', 7 August 1995, press cutting; 'Gouro-Tunnel' [1995], typescript, 3 pp and published version ‘Vision at the end of the Gouro-tunnel’, 'The Herald', 3 April 1995; 'Sticking up for peace' [on 32 Spires for Hibernia], 'Scotsman', 6 August 1994; 'A barrel-organ ...' review of exhibition of work by Eduard Bersudsky [1994], typescript, 2 pp, and published version ‘Monkey business mocks the absurd’, 'The Herald', 11 May 1994; 'Kissing Scotland goodbye' [on Richard Demarco’s possible gallery in Budapest], 'Scotsman' Weekend, 29 June 1991, pp 18-19; 'The day they raised Tower Bridge for the Paper Boat', 'Glasgow Herald', 23 September 1989, press cutting; 'The day we went to Documenta', 'Alba', Autumn 1987, pp 3, 39, offprint; 'What I hate is ... The enthusiasm of midges', [1991?], draft typescript, 4 pp, with published version ‘Getting a buzz from the good life’, 'Scotsman', 9 February 1991; 'It’s high noon at the Mound' [on removal of SSA annual exhibition from Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh], 'Scotland on Sunday', 6 August 1989, press cutting; Review of unknown exhibition, 'Alba' no 7, early 1998, offprint; 'Compass man on course to beat the grey thinkers' [on Cyril Gerber], 'Glasgow Herald', 29 April 1986, press cutting; 'Making equipment for sea fishing', 'Hobbies Weekly', vol 130:3369, 6 July 1960, p 245, offprint, with invoice from 'Hobbies Weekly' for payment of £1.
