#glasgow school
CHARLES RENNIE MACINTOSH, Hill House Musicroom, Helensbourgh, Scotland, 1904
I love Mackintosh’s work so much.
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Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (British, 1864-1933);
White Rose And Red Rose&The Heart Of The Rose, part of the design for the ‘Rose Boudoir’ room,1902
Painted gesso over hessian, with glass beads, 97.8 cm. x 100.3 cm, Private Collection.
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ALTJessie M King
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ALTWhen I started posting fanart online I chose my username by glancing up at a framed print by Jessie M King, The Sea Voices. I’ve had it on my wall since I laser-copied it out of a library book when I was at uni and just love its soft seaside drippiness and delicate lines. I was lucky enough to meet and even hold (and sniff) the original drawing in the study room at the V&A: it is absolutely gorgeous! It sparkles, the graphite lines reflect the light like silver!
Jessie’s dad was a minister and forbid her from creating art so she often had to hide her drawings. She had a mystical experience and felt the touch of fairies on a hill as a teenager. She studied and later taught at The Glasgow School of Art and had an illustration career that produced wonderful things. She won a gold medal for her book binding design for “L'Evangile de L'Enfance” in the first International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art, Turin 1902. The accompanying certificate was made out to “Signor Jessie Marion King” as they assumed no prize would be won by a “Signora”.
“The image she conjures up of pale ladies festooned in stars and attended by flights of birds, or wan haloed Knights, lost in reverie and drifting through landscapes of faint transfigured trees and insubstantial dream castles of the mind, is not quite like anything else in Art, and once entered, never wholly escaped from.”
-John Russel Taylor
