Monday 12 July 2010

EVELYN SMALL - MORGAN MAGAZINE - 1974

I have a few arty items I thought I'd cobble together over the next few days to present a wee showcase of amateur and professional art associated with Dundee.
So to get the exhibition started, here is the 1974 Morgan Magazine, a school publication made by the pupils. The mag's content is an assortment of poems, graphics, short stories and academic updates. Although there is a wide variety of work to choose from, I've plucked out one contributor as an example to use here, namely, Evelyn Small, who as well as being the mag's Art Editor, also designed the cover and supplied many of the illustrations inside. Her graphic above, of an abstract burst of ink accompanies a neat little piece of creative writing by Alan Stewart.
The magazine's material does display a surprising maturity for school kids, so much so, it got me wondering if any of the pupils from this era went on to make a living as artists or writers?
You may need to click on the bottom image to read the large version.

5 comments:

  1. Like the cover , could have came from a 1950's New Yorker magazine illustration !
    the pen and paper is also interesting , but , why is it signed "es" can the culprit comment ??

    mike

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  2. ES = Evelyn Small, the illustrator. She is credited in Retro's original post...

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  3. okay ... I feel like an idiot !!

    mike

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  4. I was Art Editor on the Morgan School magazine a couple of years before Evelyn Small (she, like me, went on to Duncan of Jordanstone - very talented girl). I did the cover too. We used to paste it all together and get it printed in a wee place down Peep O' Day Lane. The standard of contributions was always very high due, in no small part, to the great English department we had - especialy 'Fred' Phillips and the Art Department under Dougal Roy

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  5. I left the Morgan in 1972 but remember the magazine happening every year during that time. We all used to get a copy and get the 6th years to sign it - how sad was that ! However a regular contributor in my early years was Hilton McRae who went on to be an actor and palyed Gary Glitter in that execution thingy on channel 4. He is married to Lindsay Duncan who is probably better known on tv.

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