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There can be few artistic reputations which have see-sawed as dramatically as that of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) who today has cult status. Yet while many of his early projects were reported after 1897 in the British and foreign press, his masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art (1897-9 - 1907-9) was ignored. After its completion Mackintosh had no new clients in Glasgow. Leaving the city he and his wife moved as first to the coastal village of Walberswick in Suffolk, then to Chelsea, London, and from there in 1923 to the south-west of France where Mackintosh occupied his time in painting. Mackintosh was a fluent draughtsman. A prizewinner as a student, he continued throughout his life to fill sketchbooks almost as aides-memoires. He was an exceptional artist; and today reproductions if his flower studies are in every giftshop. In his self-imposed exile from Scotland Mackintosh’s compositions became more ambitious with his most striking being the watercolour landscapes produced in the south of France in response to the dramatically rugged and stridently colourful surroundings.
Mackintosh had married Margaret Macdonald (1865-1933) in 1901. In the previous year her younger sister Frances had married J Herbert McNair a draughtsman, like Mackintosh, in the long established and prestigious architectural practice of John Honeyman. The Four, as they were known, were close knit socially and artistically producing works which were hostilely criticised. In an exhibition in 1894 there was published comment about “the ghouldlike designs” of the Macdonalds who, like MacNair, has been able to set up their own studios. Mackintosh remained in his firm to become a partner in 1904 and a member of the RIBA two years later.
Mackintosh was not a commercial designer of furniture. Each piece was a response to a specific need whether for a paper project, such as the completion for the House for an Art Lover, with the perspectives being published in 1902, or for a client such as the publisher Walter Blackie at The Hill House, Helensburgh (1902-4). Mackintosh’s largest and most intact domestic commission probably came his way through the recommendation of Talwin Morris, the book designer who in 1893 had become art director for Blackie and Son, the Glasgow based publishing company. Although the Blackie family was conspicuous in the public life of the city, Walter Blackie wanted to bring up his children in the coastal town of Helensburgh with its easy rail connection to Glasgow.
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