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Davie Glen badge/brooch

Accession Number

1106.2013.1

Object Name

Davie Glen badge/brooch

Created

17/12/2013

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

17/12/2013

Brief Description

Small handpainted badge/brooch depicting Cioch, Loch Nevis with pin fastening on back.

Materials

perspex,brass

Dimensions

4cm diameter

Number Of Objects

1

Inscription Description

"CIOCH, LOCH NEVIS"

Colour

various

Maker

Davie Glen

Object Production Place

Scotland

Provenance

Folk art is described in the dictionary as " Art originating among the common people of a nation or religion and usually reflecting their traditional culture, especially everyday items produced or decorated by unschooled artists"
With that in mind we are wondering if we can have a new category called 'Mountain Folk Art', as we reckon that's what we have here with this wee brooch. Hand painted by unschooled artist, Davie Glen, this brooch and many others were made and sold by Davie back in the 1960's and 70's to raise some cash to fund his itinerant lifestyle.
Born in 1909, Davie spent his early years as a farmer's boy and navvy, gradually evolving into a man of the mountains and living for many years in a converted railway carriage in Tealing near Dundee. The Angus glens were his main stomping grounds though he lived in Lochaber latterly with his partner, Nancy Smith.
We are lucky in having lots of Davie's mountain folk art in the collection as well as a fairly comprehensive archive.
Part of an e-mail from Joan Clyne to Mick Tighe will explain how we got the brooch/cap badge. She'd bought it from Davie at a ceilidh in Roy Bridge.

"I also have something for you....it is a painted brooch by Davy Glen of Cloch,Loch Nevis......We were in Kirriemuir?....a few years ago when you put up a nice wee display of Davy's work, and we had a chat with you, and I promised you the brooch.....Since then it has been pinned to my notice board in the kitchen, but I have never met up with you again.....Now is your chance to retrieve it.....
In anticipation...Joan Clyne, Lochailort...."

Acquisition Method

Donated by Joan Clyne

Acquisition Date

17/12/2013

Condition Check Date

17/12/2013

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

17/12/2013

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