Details
- Object type
gesso panel
- Title
O Ye, All Ye that Walk in Willowwood
- Artist/Maker
- Place Associated
Scotland, Glasgow, Willow Tearooms (place associated)
- Date
1903
- Materials
pencil and oil painted gesso on board, glass and enamelled glass beads
- Dimensions
overall: 1645 mm x 585 mm 54000 g
- Description
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This gesso panel from Willow Tearooms was made by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh in 1903. It was designed as the focal point of the Salon de Luxe, at Miss Cranston's Willow Tea Rooms. The panel's title comes from the first line of a sonnet entitled 'Willowwood' from The House of Life by the Pre-Raphaelite poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The panel can be read as an interpretation of this poem about life, love and death. Margaret's panel shows the women who wander forever in mourning for their loved ones in Willowwood, their 'hollow faces burning white'. She depicts the author's sightings of his lost love in her reflection in the rippled surface of water in a woodside well and her silent mournful form moving amongst the Willow trees.
- Credit Line/Donor
Purchased with grant aid from the National Art Collections Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Friends of Glasgow Museums and public appeal, 2001
- ID Number
E.2001.6
- Location
Kelvingrove CRM and the Glasgow Style