General
Individual designers and architects
There is a distinct hierarchy to Glasgow Style designers, with Charles Rennie Mackintosh as the key lead, inspiration and the most widely recognised, followed by other members of The Four, which included James Herbert McNair and the sisters, Margaret and Frances Macdonald. As students at the Glasgow School of Art in the mid-1890s, the four, who came together recognising similarities in their work, would go on to work together in a series of innovative and sometimes controversial collaborations and later pair off in matrimony. McNair and Frances Macdonald married in 1899. Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald married the following year. Along with these, a further ten or so principal designers tend to be the most commonly referenced as operating in the style.
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- Archie Campbell
- Peter Wylie Davidson (1870-1963) •••
- Margaret De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar (1878-1959) •••
- John Ednie (1876-1934) •••
- Margaret Gilmour (1863-1942)
- Jesse M. King, 1875-1949
- Ethel Larcombe
- George Logan (1866-1939) •••
- Ann MacBeth (1875-1948)
- Frances MacDonald
- Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh, 1864-1933
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1878-1928
- James Herbert MacNair, 1868-1955
- Talwin Morris, 1865-1911
- Jessie Newberry (1864-1948) •••
- E. A. Taylor, 1874-1951
- George Walton (1867-1933) •••
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Bibliography
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Moffat, Alistair, and Colin Baxter. Remembering Charles Rennie Mackintosh: An Illustrated Biography. Lanark: Colin Baxter Photography, 1989.
White, Gleeson. "Some Glasgow Designers and Their Work (Part II)." Studio 11 (1897).
Last modified 15 January 2018