Editing Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (section)

==Popular work==
Mackintosh and her husband Charles were part of the  popular [[gesso|gesso revival]], their gesso panels were shown at the eighth exhibition of the Vienna Secession in 1900. The Mackintosh-Macdonald interior designs exhibited in 1900 with their restricted [[color scheme|colour palettes]] and fitted [[Bench (furniture)|benches]] had an immediate impact on contemporary tastes, as the [[interior architecture]] was less lavish than earlier designs.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Charlotte Ashby |title=Art Nouveau: Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation |publisher= Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2021 |page=201 |isbn=9781350061163}}</ref>

Her gesso panels are now on display in the [[Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum|Kelvingrove Museum]] in Glasgow. The 2017–18 restoration of The Willow Tearooms building has seen a recreation of ''"Oh ye, all ye that walk in Willowwood"'' installed in the original location within the Room de Luxe.

Mackintosh's ''Seven Princesses'' is considered to be her masterpiece.<ref name=Christies/><ref name="Shaw">{{cite book |last1=Shaw |first1=Michael |title=Fin-de-Siecle Scottish Revival: Romance, Decadence and Celtic Identity |date=2019 |publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] |page=117 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QnoxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA117}}</ref> It consists of three wall-sized gesso panels showing a scene from [[Maurice Maeterlinck]]'s play of the same name. This work was extremely popular in Vienna and its surrounding art scene. When the Waerndorfer villa was sold in 1916, the panels disappeared from public view. In 1990, the panels were rediscovered in Vienna's [[Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna|Museum of Applied Arts]], in a hidden room in the basement. They were in separate crates and had apparently been placed there for safekeeping during [[WWI]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Seven Princesses at The MAK; The Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna |url=https://mackintoshprints.co.uk/the-seven-princesses/ |publisher=Mackintosh:Prints/Vaughan Art-Works |access-date=April 9, 2025 |quote=It is extremely fortunate that the Seven Princesses survives at all, as with the outbreak of WW1 it could easily have been vandalized as work by the enemy. However, a curator with great foresight, managed one night not long after the outbreak of war, to remove the panel ( in fact three separate panels ) and took it down to the basement of the museum.  There he had had prepared three crates for them, which when sealed-up he had placed against a wall. Then he had a brick wall built in front of them, which was then painted to match the rest of the walls. They remained hidden like this until in 1990 they were discovered when workmen were installing some pipes and new wiring.}}</ref> The gesso panels are now on permanent display in the Museum.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/the-seven-princesses-frieze-after-a-fairy-tale-by-maurice-maeterlinck-for-the-music-salon-in-the-warndorfer-house_193862 |title=The Seven Princesses. Frieze after a fairy tale by Maurice Maeterlinck for the music salon in the Warndorfer House |website=sammlungen.mak.at |language=en |access-date=5 June 2017}}</ref>

In 2008 Mackintosh's 1902 work ''The White Rose and the Red Rose'', a painted gesso over hessian with glass bead artwork, was auctioned for the {{Inflation|UK| 1,700,500|2008|2023|fmt=eq| cursign=£}}.<ref name=Christies>{{cite web |title=Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh The White Rose and the Red Rose, 1902 |url=http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5066453 |publisher=Christie's |access-date=25 October 2015}}</ref>