Margaret Macdonald


General Information


Occupation: Designer, Artist, Interior Designer

Date of Birth: January 01, 1864

Date of Death: January 01, 1933

Birth City: Wolverhampton

Birth Country: Scotland

Resident City: Glasgow

Resident Country: Scotland

Notes: A member of the Glasgow School known as "The Four" with her husband architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, her sister Frances MacDonald, and Herbert MacNair. Her design work became one of the defining features of the "Glasgow Style" during the 1890s.

Sources: "Margaret MacDonald (1864-1933)." The Four. Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society. 22 May 2008 http://www.crmsociety.com/margaretmacdonald.aspx


Specialties


Subject: Wall and Furniture Panels, Interiors

Description: gesso panels


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Exhibitions


Title: The Jubb Collection: work by Frances and Margaret Macdonald and J Herbert MacNair

Description: 25 items by Frances and Margaret Macdonald and James Herbert MacNair from the Judd Collection held at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 18 May-28 September 1996

City: Glasgow

Country: Scotland

Start Date: May 18, 1996

End Date: August 28, 1996


Title: 1900 Vienna Secession

Description: exhibited at the National Museum of Antinquities of Scotland with Mackintosh, arguably influenced Secessionists Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann

City: Edinburg

Country: Scotland

Start Date: January 01, 1900


Title: International Exhibition at Turin

Description: displayed the Rose Boudoir

Start Date: January 01, 1903


Notable Projects


Title: Willow Tea Rooms

Start Date: January 01, 1902


Education


Institution: Glasgow School of Art

Notes: enrolled with her sister Frances MacDonald. Studied metalwork, embroidery, textiles.


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Professional Affiliations


Organization: see below

Notes: Along with her sister, Frances Macdonald, Charles Remnnie Mackintosh, and Herbert McNair she formed a group of artists in Glasgow which had considerable influence on the renewal of arts and crafts about 1900


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Publications About


Title: The History of Women Architects

Author: Sonja Gunther, Christine Jachmann, Helga Schmidt-Thomsen, Michelle Stanley (translator)

Publication: Exhibit Catalog

Publisher: ABC Satz and Druck GmbH

City: Berlin

Country: delete

Notes: This is a catalog published for the exhibit of the UIFA (Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes). An exhibition of the German Federal Republik Section of the UIFA Within the framework of the IBA (International Building Exhibition) in Berlin.


Title: Part seen, part imagined : meaning and symbolism in the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald

Author: Timothy Neat

Publication: book

Publisher: Canongate Press

City: Edinburgh

Date Published: January 01, 1994


Title: A sense of extravagance : Margaret Macdonald's gesso panels, 1900-1903

Author: Janice Helland

Publication: Visual culture in Britain

Volume: 2

Issue: 1

Page: 1-15,113

Date Published: January 01, 2001


Title: The Chronycle: the letters of Charles Rennie Mackintosh to Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh 1927

Author: Pamela Robertson (ed.)

Publication: book

Publisher: Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

City: Glasgow

Date Published: January 01, 2001

Notes: Comprises the collection of letters written to his wife Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864-1933) in 1927 by the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), which he entitled The Chronycle. The author provides an account of the circumstances leading to the Mackintoshs' move to France in the 1920s, and describes the picture of their lives that emerges from the journal in letter form that Mackintosh kept during his wife's absence in London. She also discusses the series of watercolour paintings of the Pyrenean landscape, coastal towns, and flora, which Mackintosh produced in the 1920s, and comments on their posthumous reception in London and at the Mackintosh Memorial Exhibition in Glasgow (1933). Includes the annotated text of The Chronycle, a listing of the French watercolours, and a letter from Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, dated 1930.


Title: The Jubb Collection: work by Frances and Margaret Macdonald and J Herbert MacNair

Author: Elizabeth Cumming

Publication: Crafts

Volume: 142

Page: 59-60

Date Published: August 01, 1996

Notes: Sept-Oct 1996. Review of an exhibition of the 25 items by Frances and Margaret Macdonald and James Herbert MacNair from the Judd Collection held at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 18 May-28 September 1996. The items were bequeathed to the Hunterian in 1995 by Maureen Judd, a Macdonald descendent.