Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Queen of Spades (for Hous'hill, Catherine Cranston’s residence,
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Queen of Spades (for Hous'hill, Catherine Cranston’s residence, Glasgow, Scotland), 1909Wood, paint, gessoMargaret Macdonald Mackintosh, wife of Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, created numerous stenciled and gessoed pictures for the tearooms that her husband designed for Catherine Cranston in Glasgow. Later Macdonald Mackintosh assisted her husband in the interior decoration of Hous’hill, Miss Cranston’s Glasgow residence. These four panels, originally set into the walls of the Card Room in Cranston’s house, depict the queens of the four card suits flanked by two court pages. Macdonald Mackintosh’s use of gesso to create a high-relief linear style was characteristic of her work during the period.VMFA -- source link