By a Woman's Hand by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486131887
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

The Flowers

A Child’s Garden of Verses, 1905

“The Young King,” A House of Pomegranates, n.d.

Jessie Marion King

1875–1949

Jessie Marion King entered the Glasgow School of Art in 1891, where she came in contact with the work of Charles Rennie Macintosh and other Arts and Crafts artists. She traveled to France and Italy on a scholarship from the school, and, while in Italy, first encountered the paintings of Botticelli, which were to have a strong influence on her work. Although definitely in the Glasgow style, her delicate pen-and-ink drawings, often with color washes, were highly individual.

In addition to being a talented illustrator, King was an accomplished designer of books, jewelry, textiles, and costume. In 1899 she received a commission from a Berlin department store to design items in the new “Scottish style.” In 1902, she received a gold medal for her book design of L’Evangile de l’Enfance in the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Turin. That same year she began teaching book design at the Glasgow School.

She married fellow artist E. A. Taylor in 1908, and moved with him to Paris in 1910, where they ran a studio gallery. They returned to Scotland at the outbreak of World War I and settled in the artist community of Kirkcudbright, where King started a center for women artists.

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