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Margaret Macdonald was a highly influential artist and played a leading role in designing the interiors at the Hill House. Along with her sister Frances, she graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in the 1890s. Macdonald’s artwork is renowned for its whimsical style and symbolism.
15 de abr. de 2024 · 3,400 words. Syndicate this essay. ‘Philosophical theories are much more like good stories than scientific explanations.’. This provocative remark comes from the paper ‘Linguistic Philosophy and Perception’ (1953) by Margaret Macdonald. Macdonald was a figure at the institutional heart of British philosophy in the mid- 20th century ...
29 de nov. de 2017 · The sisters Margaret and Frances Macdonald registered to enter the Glasgow School of Art in 1890. From a privileged background, the Macdonald family had moved to Glasgow in the late 1880s; by 1900 Glasgow was to become one of the world’s wealthiest cities, an emblem of the British Empire.
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864–1933), painter and designer, was one of the most successful of the artist-designers later called the 'Glasgow Girls'. She produced watercolours, graphics, and panels in gesso (plaster), beaten metal and textile, much of this in collaboration with her sister, Frances Macdonald (1874–1921), James Herbert ...
19 de dic. de 2017 · Most people have heard of Art Nouveau, but few remember two of the most influential figures in its conception. (No, not Gustav Klimt.) They were a pair of sisters named Margaret and Frances MacDonald, who, along with their Glasgow School of Art classmates Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Herbert MacNair, comprised the Glasgow Four.
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh is highly regarded as a notable artist and designer of gesso panels and metalwork. This Summer panel is an allegorical work in which a stylised Art Nouveau figure of a woman and four infants represent the fecundity and greenness of the season. The panel is based upon an 1897 watercolour of the same name, now in ...
