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

An information poster on the Glasgow Style, specifically Margaret and Frances' work.

Mermaid tile mural backsplash based on Glasgow Girl Jessie M. King Little Mermaid.

This super show shines a light on unjustly neglected female artists between 1885 and 1965

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…

Bid now on Invaluable: * § ANNIE FRENCH (SCOTTISH 1872-1965) AUTUMN 24 x 16cm (9½ x 6in) from Lyon & Turnbull on September 07, 2012, 02:00 PM GMT.

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Jessie Marion King (1875 - 1949) was a well-known Scottish illustrator who specialised in children's books. She also painted pottery...

Sometimes we can learn so much about an artist by the life they leave behind & other times, we have only their life's work to gaze at to try in some way imagine what they must have been like. And this sadly, is very true for Annie French, born in (1872-1975) Glasgow, Scotland, she was a 19th & 20th century painter, etcher and illustrator, who taught ceramic decoration at the Applied Art Studios of the Glasgow School of Art. She was the daughter of a metallurgist. She studied under Fra…