Blind Window, Certosa di Pavia
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- 1891
Painted on Mackintosh's tour of Italy in 1891 with Alexander 'Greek' Thomson travelling scholarship.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Blind Window, Certosa di Pavia
Painted on Mackintosh's tour of Italy in 1891 with Alexander 'Greek' Thomson travelling scholarship.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh's style here is the closest he came to that of Margaret and Frances Macdonald, but his figures are always more substantial and the subject matter less whimsical than theirs.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
In July Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald spent a holiday in Dorset re-visiting many of the place he had visited in 1895. 'In 'The Village' and 'The Downs' Mackintosh makes his first conscious moves towards his mature style of the Port Vendres period. He is obviously concerned with the pattern of the landscape, picking out features like the stepped hillside, the stone walls, paths and roofs of village houses. These ordinary motifs are given an eerie emphasis by being painted in an equally detailed manner whether they are in the foreground of the the distance... it was probably at this time... that he decided to concentrate more and more on painting. By 1923 he had decided to forsake architecture and design and devote the rest of his life to producing watercolours.' (Roger Billcliffe).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 2)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 3)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 10)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 36)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 38)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 41)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 43)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 46)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Appears in The Magazine, April 1894. 'The central figure is based upon that used in the 1893 design for a diploma for the GSA and like that in 'The Harvest Moon', has wings like an angel. Here, however, she appears naked and her outstretched arms and hair merge and are transformed into barren tree-like forms. These descend to the horizon behind which the sun is gradually disappearing under the feet of the winged figure. From the bottom of the picture, and directly beneath the sun, rises a flight of menacing birds. They are presumably nocturnal birds of prey and they seem to be flying directly towards the viewers. This is one of Mackintosh's earliest uses of this strange bird, which was to become more stylised and to appear in many different forms, in several media in his oeuvre.' (Roger Billcliffe).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Bound in volume, The Magazine, November 1894.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Bound in volume, The Magazine, November 1894. 'Behind a stylised tree stands another of Mackintosh's mysterious female figures, but this is the first one to appear that is not meticulously drawn. Only the head is shown in any detail, and the shape of the body is hidden by a voluminous cloak from which not even its limbs appear. This figure was to be repeated many times, becoming more and more stereotyped until, with the banners designed for the Turin Exhibition in 1902, the head is the only recognisably human part of a figure with a twelve-foot long, pear shaped torso. In 1895-96, Mackintosh was to develop this drawing into a poster for the Scottish Musical Review (Howarth, p1, 9F). The same cloaked figure appears with similar formal emblems at the ends of the branches of the bush.' (Roger Billcliffe).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Painted during their stay in Suffolk, when Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald had left Glasgow.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh produced a number of very similar paintings of stylised bouquets of flowers at this time, c1918-20.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 8)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 9)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 20)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 23)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 31)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 37)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 39)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
In art nouveau frame drawn in ink on brown backing paper: The Harvest Moon, Chas. R. Mackintosh, 1893, To John Keppie, October 1894.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Bound in volume, The Magazine, November, 1894.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
From The Magazine, Spring 1896. Inscribed: The Tree of Personal Effort, The Sun of Indifference, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, January 1895.' The exact meaning of the symbolism of this work, and its companion, 'The Tree of Influence' has eluded all commentators on Mackintosh's early water-colours. The obvious source of the symbolism is nature, and Mackintosh here reaches his most extreme distortion of organic forms.' (Roger Billcliffe).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
From The Magazine, Spring 1896. Inscribed: The Tree of Influence, The Tree of Importance, The Sun of Cowardice, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Jan 1895.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
From The Magazine, Spring 1896. The shadow does not correspond with the object in front; it touches it and echoes it but is different.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
'As in 'The Village' there are no figures in this view of the Dorset countryside. This absolute lack of human activity gives Mackintosh's pictures an air of eerie, even surreal, desertion. They are formal landscapes... the most dominant feature in this work is the tall telegraph pole, a formal and unnatural element in this gentle Dorset landscape.' (Roger Billcliffe).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 1)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh sketchbook (Page 4)
Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie