Margaret macdonald

i have discovered a new love for margaret macdonald.

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh I The Three Perfumes, 1912 Born 1864, Newcastle-under-Lyme. England; died 1933. Pont Vendres. France Watercolor and pencil on vellum 19 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches Gift of George Bough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth CAM 1955.275 As ephemeral as fragrance, this image of The Three Perfumes comes into focus like an ethereal

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

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…

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…

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

Margaret and Frances Macdonald and their Glasgow School of Art classmates Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Harold MacNair were Art Nouveau's Glasgow Four.

In order to creatively explore notions of fashion, style, and artistic identity, students in the ‘Artistic Dress’ elective course in Year 3 of the Forum for Critical Enquiry have arranged tableaux vivants throughout the Mackintosh Building. These ‘living pictures’ show the students’ own research into dress history, displaying styles that either inspired or expressed trends […]

'Summer' gesso panel (detail) Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh