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Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh (
1865–
1933) was a
Scottish artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the "Glasgow Style" during the 1890s.
Born Margaret MacDonald, near
Wolverhampton, her father was a
colliery manager and engineer. By 1890 the family had settled in
Glasgow and Margaret and her sister,
Frances MacDonald, enrolled as students at the
Glasgow School of Art. There she worked in a variety of media, including
metalwork,
embroidery, and
textiles. She was first a collaborator with her sister, and later with her husband, the
architect and designer
Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Her most dynamic works are large
gesso panels made for the interiors that she designed with Mackintosh, such as
tearooms and private residences.
Together with her husband, her sister, and
Herbert MacNair, she was one of the most influential members of the loose collective of the
Glasgow School known as "The Four". She exhibited with Mackintosh at the 1900
Vienna Secession, where she was arguably an influence on the
Secessionists
Gustav Klimt and
Josef Hoffmann.
Macdonald, along with her sister, is one of the many "marginalized wives" that have suffered from patriarchal art historical discourse. She was celebrated in her time by many of her peers, including her husband who once wrote in a letter to Margaret "Remember, you're half if not three-quarters of all my architectural..."; and reportedly "Margaret has genius, I've only talent." It isn't known exactly which of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's works Margaret was involved with (or the extent to which she worked on them) but she's credited with being an important part of her husband's figurative, symbolic interior designs. Many of these were executed at the early part of the twentieth century; and include the
Rose Boudoir at the International Exhibition at
Turin in 1903, the designs for House for an Art Lover in 1900, and the Willow Tea Rooms in 1902. Sadly, poor health cut short Margaret's career--as far as we know, she produced no work after 1921. She died in 1933, five years after her husband.
Her best known works include the
gesso panel
The May Queen, which was made to partner Mackintosh's panel
The Wassail for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tearooms, and
Oh ye, all ye that walk in Willowood, which formed part of the decorative scheme for the Room de Luxe in the
Willow Tearooms. All three of these are now on display in the
Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow.
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