Panel designed by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

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This gesso panel depicts a woman looking up towards four children. It is signed 'Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh 1904'.

This work is on gesso which is a white plaster often used to prepare panels or canvas for painting.

Margaret Macdonald, 1864-1933, was an original and imaginative artist. She and her husband, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, were at the forefront of the 'The Glasgow Style'.

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• Online ID: 000-000-099-840-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: Innovators and Innovations (multimedia essay)
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  H.SVB 4
• Date: 1904
  
• Material: Gesso, cream; white wood frame
  Panel, furniture
  
• Dimensions: 1155 mm x 570 mm; 45.50" x 22.40" (frame)
  
• What: Panel, furniture
  
• Subject: Furniture - rooms - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and Dunglass Cast (NMAS Classification)
  
• Who: Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (artist)
  
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• Description: Cream coloured gesso panel in a white wood frame, depicting in low relief a woman looking upwards to four naked children, signed `Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh 1904'
  
• References:
  • Helland, Janice. The studios of Frances and Margaret Macdonald. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1996
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