Editing Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (section)

==Biography==
Born Margaret Macdonald, at [[Tipton]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Great Women Artists |year=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=9780714878775 |page=253}}</ref> [[Staffordshire]] between [[Birmingham]] and [[Wolverhampton]], her father was a colliery manager and engineer. Margaret and her younger sister Frances both attended the Orme Girls' School, [[Newcastle-under-Lyme]], Staffordshire; their names are recorded in the school register.<ref>Orme Girls' School, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Registers</ref> In the 1881 census Margaret, aged 16, was a visitor at someone else's house on census night and was listed as a scholar.<ref>1881 Census</ref> By 1890, the family had settled in [[Glasgow]] and Margaret and her sister, [[Frances Macdonald]], enrolled as day students at the [[Glasgow School of Art]] studying courses in design.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Mysterious Garden – Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh| url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/m/artist/margaret-macdonald-mackintosh/object/the-mysterious-garden-gma-5156| publisher=National Galleries of Scotland| access-date=25 October 2015}}</ref> There, she worked with a variety of media, including [[Metalworking|metalwork]], [[embroidery]], and [[textiles]]. Additionally, she joined other groups, such as the Scottish Society of Watercolour Painters in 1898.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Helland |first=Janice |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33439974 |title=The studios of Frances and Margaret Macdonald |date=1996 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=0719047838 |location=Manchester, UK |oclc=33439974}}</ref>

She began collaborating with her sister Frances, and in 1896 the pair worked from their studio at 128 Hope Street, Glasgow, where they produced book illustrations, embroidery, ''[[gesso]]'' panels, leaded glass and ''[[Repoussé and chasing|repoussé]]'' metalwork.<ref>Keller, Victoria (1985), "Scottish Woman Artists" in Parker, Geoff (ed.), ''[[Cencrastus]]'' No. 23, Summer 1986, pp. 28 - 33, {{issn|0264-0856}}</ref> Their innovative work was inspired by Celtic imagery, literature, symbolism, and folklore.<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite web|last1=Panther|first1=Patricia|title=Margaret MacDonald: the talented other half of Charles Rennie Mackintosh|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/arts/margaret_macdonald_the_talented_other_half_of_charles_rennie_mackintosh.shtml|website=BBC|access-date=8 March 2015}}</ref> Margaret later collaborated with her husband, the architect and designer [[Charles Rennie Mackintosh]], whom she married on 22 August 1900.<ref name=MainsStreet>{{cite web|title=MX.04 Interiors for 120 Mains Street|url=http://www.mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/pdf/MX.04.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/pdf/MX.04.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|website=Mackintosh Architecture: Context, Making and Meaning|publisher=University of Glasgos|access-date=4 December 2014}}</ref> Her most well-known works are the gesso panels made for interiors designed with Charles, such as tearooms and private residences.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh is frequently claimed to be Scotland's most famous architect. Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh was somewhat marginalised in comparison.<ref name="bbc.co.uk"/> Yet she was celebrated in her time by many of her peers, including her husband who once wrote in a letter to her, "Remember, you are half if not three-quarters in all my architectural work&nbsp;...";<ref>''The Chronicle: the letters of Charles Rennie Mackintosh to Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh'', Pamela Robertson, ed.</ref> and reportedly "Margaret has genius, I have only talent."<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book|title=Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century| date=2001| publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|edition=Fourth| location=United States of America| page=81| last1=Kirkham|first1=Pat}}</ref>

Active and recognised during her career, between 1895 and 1924 she contributed to more than 40 European and American exhibitions.<ref name="bbc.co.uk" /> Poor health cut short Margaret's career and, as far as is known, she produced no work after 1921.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crmsociety.com/margaretmacdonald.aspx |title=Margaret Macdonald (1864–1933) |publisher=Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society |access-date=25 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104013707/http://www.crmsociety.com/margaretmacdonald.aspx |archive-date=4 January 2016 }}</ref> She died in 1933.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Interior Design |author1=Mark Hinchman |year=2021 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=9781501365188 |page=212}}</ref>