'The Four'
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 3,550 objects that relate to artists known collectively as ‘The Four’ – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, his future wife Margaret Macdonald, her younger sister Frances Macdonald and her future husband James Herbert McNair. The works date from the period 1890–1920. This collection comprises about 50 works by The Four and a further 3,500 pieces of interior panelling, furniture, furnishing, stained glass and cutlery that are associated with Mackintosh’s tearoom designs for Miss Catherine Cranston. The collection includes prints, drawings, watercolours, gesso panels and metalwork. Works by Mackintosh include prints, watercolours, designs and drawings, and also furniture and objects from the Hill House, Hous’hill, 78 Derngate, the Glasgow Herald Office and Scotland Street School. Furniture and interior elements from Miss Cranston’s four tearooms in Glasgow are well represented. The collection also contains reproduction furniture, architectural models and doll’s houses and miniatures. During the 1890s The Four studied at Glasgow School of Art. Through their work they defined the Glasgow style, an influential movement in modern European art.
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