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Margaret Macdonald

Margaret Macdonald was one of the most gifted and successful women artists in Scotland at the turn of the century. Her output was wide-ranging and included watercolours, graphics, metalwork and textiles. Arguably her greatest achievements were in gesso, a plaster-based medium, which she used to make decorative panels for furniture and interiors.

Macdonald was born in England and came to Glasgow with her family around 1890. She enrolled as a day student at Glasgow School of Art where she met Mackintosh and Herbert McNair. She left the School in the mid 1890s and set up an independent studio in the city with her sister, Frances.

The sisters worked together until Frances’s marriage and departure for Liverpool in 1899. Mackintosh and Macdonald married in 1900.

Collaboration was key to Margaret Macdonald’s creativity. The partnership with her sister in the 1890s produced metalwork, graphics, and a series of book illustrations. Her collaboration with Mackintosh comprised primarily the production of panels for interiors and furniture, notably for the tea rooms an

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Sleeping Beauty by Margaret Macdonald at Hill House

Margaret Macdonald lived from 5 November 1864 to 7 January 1933. She was an artist whose work helped define "The Glasgow Style" and who married Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.

Margaret Macdonald was born in the English Midlands, where her father, a Glaswegian, worked as a mining engineer. After he retired in 1890, the family moved back to Glasgow and the following year Margaret and her younger sister Frances both became students at the Glasgow School of Art. Margaret worked in a number of different media including paint, metalwork, embroidery, and textiles. While at the GSA, Margaret and Frances formed a close artistic partnership with J Herbert McNair and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Frances Macdonald married McNair in 1899, and Margaret married Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1900.

The group were often referred to as The Four or The Glasgow Four and collectively exh

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Margaret Macdonald

Notes:

1: See Jude Burkhauser, ed., Glasgow Girls: Women in Art and Design 1880–1920, Edinburgh: Canongate Publishing: 1990.

2: Janice Helland, The Studios of Frances and Margaret Macdonald, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995, pp. 13–18.

3: Janice Helland, The Studios of Frances and Margaret Macdonald, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995, p. 20.

4: The Drooko poster is untraced. For a photograph see The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: GLAHA 52932. An example of the Institute poster is held by The Hunterian: GLAHA 41056.

5: Studio, 11, 1897, pp. 86–100.

6: See Pamela Robertson, ed., Doves and Dreams: The Art of Frances Macdonald and James Herbert McNair, London: Lund Humphries, 2006.

7: B. E. [sic] Kalas, 'The Art of Glasgow', De la Tamise à la Sprée, l'essor des industries d'art, Rheims: Michaud, 1905, reprinted in Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Memorial Exhibition Catalogue, Glasgow: McLellan Galleries, 1933, p. 5.

8: The Hunterian, University of