Monday 12 August 2013

More Glasgow Girl images.....

How could I forget Annie French....'My Love is like a Red Red Rose'
and by Margaret MacDonald (Charles Rennie Mackintosh's wife) 'The Three Perfumes' (1912)
and by her sister Frances MacDonald 'A Paradox' (1905)
and also by Frances 'Girl and Butterflies'..signed under her married name Frances McNair
there's also Ann Macbeth and Jessie Newbery who created beautiful embroideries, and many others worth looking at for inspiration if nothing else.

A book on Batik by Jessie......


there were illustrations on where to place the design on a garment.
and this is what a garment with a Batik design might have looked like ...



A few Jessie M King illustrations.....


Jessie M.King Dolls House.....

I was at the Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery, in Glasgow yesterday enjoying paintings by the wonderful Glasgow Boys. However for me the gallery with the 'Glasgow Girls' work - Jessie M.King and Francis & Margaret MacDonald - was pure joy! Their ethereal and fairy-like water-colours, gessoed panels, embroidery, ceramics are so inspiring - these girls could do it all.
Jessie designed a dollshouse in 1913 to be included in an exhibition in Paris at the Musee Galleria, where various designers were allocated space to create their own vision of a child's world (circa 1913). This is that house....how I wish it had gone into production or that there were plans?