This free exhibition includes three costumes (for the Bishop, the Judge and the General) and a set design from 1961, all created by Boty for an unrealised production of Jean Genet’s “The Balcony” and runs until 25 February 2024. The University of Glasgow website [location of the Hunterian Art Gallery] has further information, as follows:

“Stage and Screen features works on paper from the James L Gordon Collection, on show in Scotland for the first time. Covering designs for both theatre and film, this visually engaging exhibition offers a rare glimpse into this unique personal collection of rich and diverse material.

With a few earlier exceptions, the James L Gordon collection comprises set and costume designs for British theatre productions from about 1900 to the 1990s, and British and American designs for film and television from the 1930s onwards. The designs are almost all two-dimensional: drawings, watercolours, paintings and collages, rather than three-dimensional models. The range of material is immense, embracing everything from Shakespeare to pantomime, opera to ballet, Hammer horror to Hollywood musicals and Doctor Who to the Eurovision Song Contest.

Spanning the whole of the 20th century, Stage and Screen includes works by leading artists such as Cecil Beaton and David Hockney and designs for famous productions including Oh! Calcutta!, Hair, Cats, Little Shop of Horrors and The Slab Boys. The exhibition also features costume designs for stars such as Rudolf Nureyev, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Grace Jones.

Presented chronologically, by decade, the hundreds of works on display cover a wide range of social and cultural issues, highlighting the history of how they have been represented in the theatre and on screen.

As well as set designs by artists such as Patrick Caulfield, Edward Burra, Paul Nash and Rex Whistler, the exhibition also features costume designs for performers and musicians, often identifiable by the inscriptions or drawings, including Liza Minelli, Elton John, The Jackson Five, Mick Jagger and The Beatles.”

Location
Hunterian Art Gallery
University of Glasgow
82 Hillhead St
Glasgow G12 8QQ
The Hunterian is part of the University of Glasgow. The Museums, Art Gallery and The Mackintosh House are located on the Gilmorehill campus, 3km west of Glasgow city centre

Gallery
Stage and Screen is in Gallery 2, located upstairs.
The space is fully accessible via lift

Opening times
Tuesday to Sunday 10am–5pm. Closed Monday.
Please check the Opening Hours page before visting, here [link]

Further information, including a downloadable list of works, is available here: [link]

With much thanks to Colin Malcolm for both providing the information about the exhibition and sharing his photos from the event.