| Frances Macdonald was a member of the Glasgow Four and later married Herbert
MacNair. Her work is, like that of Margaret
McDonald often over shadowed by the achievements of Charles Rennie
Mackintosh. She produced a variety of decorative objects including embroidery, gesso panels and water colour paintings. In this painting on the right, one can see the use of flowing feminine lines which create a very decorative effect which is at once flattening to the picture plane and also leads the eye into depth. Also the use of the feminine image, relates to the work of Margaret MacDonald, with whom she shared a close collaboration with. |
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Frances MacDonald MacNair Tis a long path which wanders to desire 1912-1915 pencil and water colour Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
| Like the work of Margaret MacDonald, Frances
also was influenced by William Blake and Aubrey Beardsley
and this can be shown in her use linear elements and elongated figures. Her work also demonstrates an influence of Symbolism, as seen on the left, which would have been transmitted to her by the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his close collaboration with the symbolist and decorative movements on the continent, like the Vienna Secession. |
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Frances MacDonald MacNair. Ill Omen 1893 |
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