Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864 -1933) was an English-born artist who attended classes at the Glasgow School of Art and whose art and design work became one of the defining features of the Glasgow Style in the years around 1900. It was at the School of Art that she met her future husband Charles Rennie Mackintosh, often seen as Scotland’s greatest architect. Her work has been somewhat marginalised in comparison, by later art and design historians, but in recent decades has been recognised as a major contribution to the progressive style and output of the Glasgow Four, the group that included her sister Frances and her husband Herbert MacNair, as well as Mackintosh.

[@bellefrahm2025]

This is great, thank you!

[@anneandersonartanddesignhi3497]

Glad you liked it! Anne

[@loraineeverard9760]

Thank you, fascinating!

[@anneandersonartanddesignhi3497]

Glad you enjoyed it! Anne

[@maxlinder5262]

Thank you... Wish you didn't have that echo sound to your commentary .... just my opinion 😊

[@anneandersonartanddesignhi3497]

It was early days in my use of zoom! I think I am getting better!

[@karenw8929]

One aspect of this lecture is incorrect. You keep saying that Margaret's work was influenced by Beardsley - it's just the opposite. Beardsley and Klimt's work were both influenced by Margaret's work - her work came first. Klimt admitted this. Even Rennie said she was the genius of the movement. He was better known, but he followed her vision ... so, this is what she contributed since you seem confused by that.

[@anneandersonartanddesignhi3497]

Beardsley's work was known from 1892/93, published in the Studio. He had no opportunity to see MMM's work until 1895.

[@artistinlederhosen]

regarding gesso…. jes- OH, not jess-SUE, is the proper pronunciation.