Jessie Marion King
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of more than 260 items relating to the Scottish artist, designer and illustrator Jessie Marion King. These date from 1879 to 1999. This collection includes both three-dimensional objects and works on paper, such as illustrated books, drawings, prints and fabric designs, and archival material – letters, photographs and programmes. These reflect Jessie Marion King’s versatility across a wide range of media, including batik work, silver and enamelwork, mosaic and ceramic decoration. In addition, the collection includes personal effects belonging to her husband EA Taylor and from their home Greengate Close in Kirkcudbright. Further documentary material charts the resurgence of interest in King’s work in the decades following her death. Jessie Marion King (1875–1949) was one of the most commercially successful designers and illustrators to emerge from Glasgow at the end of the 19th century. A contemporary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Macdonald sisters, she trained at the Glasgow School of Art from 1892 to 1899, and taught book and ceramic decoration there between 1899 and 1907.
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