Oh ye, all ye that walk in Willowood, 1902.

Menu card design, 1911.

For the Christian end-times prophecy, see Margaret Macdonald (Prophecy).

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. Image File history File linksMetadata Willowood. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Willowood. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1309x927, 121 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Margaret MacDonald (artist) Catherine Cranston ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1309x927, 121 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Margaret MacDonald (artist) Catherine Cranston ... Margaret Macdonald, born ca. ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Motto: (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity(English) Wha daur meddle wi me? (Scots)[1] Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic, Scots[2] Government  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I... Look up artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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. Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, traditionally part of the county of Staffordshire. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... Frances MacDonald (1873–1921) was a Scottish artist whose design work was a prominent feature of the Glasgow Style during the 1890s. ... 194. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... For the chemist and inventor, see Charles Mackintosh. ... Gesso is the Italian word for chalk (akin to the Greek word gypsum), and is a powdered form of the mineral calcium carbonate used in art. ... A tea room is a variety of café found particularly in England, but also present in other parts of the UK, as well as Australia, India, New Zealand, and some other Commonwealth countries. ...

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 a major influence on the Secessionists Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann. The Gift of Doves, 1904. ... The Glasgow School was a circle of influential modern artists and designers who began to coalesce in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1870s, and flourished from the 1890s to sometime around 1910. ... The secession building at Vienna, built in 1897 by Joseph Maria Olbrich for exhibitions of the secession group another view The Vienna Secession or (also known as Secessionsstil, or Sezessionsstil in Austria) was part of that highly varied movement that is now covered by the general term Art Nouveau. ... Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity. ... Gustav Klimt, 1902 Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement. ... Josef Hoffmann (December 15, 1870 - May 7, 1956) was an Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods. ...

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 said "Margaret is half if not three-quarters of all my work..." and "Margaret has genius, I have only talent."

Her best known works include the gesso panel Oh ye, all ye that walk in Willowood, which formed part of the decorative scheme for the Room de Luxe in the Willow Tearooms, and Opera of the Winds. Gesso is the Italian word for chalk (akin to the Greek word gypsum), and is a powdered form of the mineral calcium carbonate used in art. ... The Willow Tearooms entrance and jewellers shop frontage on Sauchiehall Street. ...

External links

• Biography at the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society

• works by Margaret Macdonald in the Hunterian Art Gallery Collections
• Information on The Group of Four from the Hunterian Art Gallery

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