The Mysterious Garden
From about 1900 Macdonald began to produce larger, independent watercolours alongside her craftwork. Here, a figure is seemingly asleep and may be dreaming, while above her stands a row of eight heads or masks which are perhaps part of her dream. The subject may have been inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck’s play ‘The Blue Bird’, which was performed in Glasgow in autumn 1910. Also, stylistically it o…
Creator
- Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
Subject
- Symbolism
- Glasgow style
- Symbolist
Type of item
- Drawing
- drawings (visual works)
Medium
- Watercolour and ink over pencil on vellum, laid on board
- Aquarell
- vellum (paper)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
User generated content
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Creation date
- 1911
- 1911
Current location
- Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Provenance
- Purchased from help from the Art Fund 2011
Identifier
- UK_280_030
Extent
- 45.10 x 47.70 cm
Language
- English
Year
- 1911
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
Timestamp created
- 2019-09-10T19:17:54.593Z
Timestamp updated
- 2019-09-10T19:17:54.593Z