Margaret macdonald mackintosh paintings

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (5 November 1864 7 January 1933) was a Scottish artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the Glasgow Style during the 1890s. Born Margaret Macdonald, at Tipton, near Wolverhampton, her father was a colliery manager and engineer. Margaret and h

THE WHITE ROSE AND THE RED ROSE, 1902

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh was, alongside her husband Charles Rennie Mackintosh, one of the key figures in the emergence of the ‘Glasgow Style’ in the 1890s. Born near Wolverhampton, she settled in Glasgow in the late 1880s. Margaret and her sister Frances enrolled at Glasgow...

He cast an eye over the panels and then looked at them very closely. Finally, he said we were certainly on the right track, which was praise indeed. However, as he left, and I was just closing the door, he turned and said “You must sign them”. I replied that…

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The Wassail (detail) 1900. One of the three panels for the ladies Luncheon Room, Ingram Street Tea Rooms. Oil painted gesso on hessian and scrim, set with twine, glass beads, thread, mother-of-pearl, and tin leaf, panel. From the collection of Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, Glasgow

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Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh - The White Rose and the Red Rose, 1902, painted gesso over hessian, with glass beads, 97.8 cm x 100.3 cm

Two women from Glasgow in Scotland were among the creators who dictated the aesthetic base of the artistic movement which illuminated Europe between 1890 and 1915.