Glasgow style

Happy Thanksgiving, to those of you celebrating today! We've got works by artist Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. I love the expression on her face in this photograph: Photographed by Annan, c. 1906 She lived from 1864-1933 and was married to architect/designer/artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who said of his wife, "I have talent. She has genius." Margaret did striking gesso panels. Gesso is a thick, traditionally white fluid made of a mixture of plaster or chalk and glue. It is usually used…

Detail of a poster for the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, ca. 1895. Designed by Frances Macdonald (1873–1921), Margaret Macdonald (1864–1933), and James Herbert McNair (1868–1955). Collection of Glasgow Museums, Scotland. Photo: Victoria Emily Jones, at the Walters Art Museum exhibition "Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style."

To mark the 150th birthday of Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh this week, here's a look at his most famous building, the Glasgow School of Art

This is a poster designed by Henry van de Velde in 1899.

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert MacNair, Frances Macdonald, and Margaret Macdonald. #artnouveau #glasgowstyle #artists #designers #graphicdesign #graphicart