Painting
The May Queen
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, 1900
Show the style
Art Nouveau · chronological order 10
Where to see it
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Glasgow · United Kingdom
A decorative panel in gesso, tempera and glass on jute, made by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh in 1900 for the Ingram Street tea rooms in Glasgow. It is now held in the Glasgow Museums collections.
The May Queen stands in the centre with two attendants, all of them against a background of vertical stems and stylised roses. The panel defines the Glasgow Style, the British branch of Art Nouveau, plainer and more geometric than the French or Belgian versions, and the one that went on to influence Klimt and the Vienna Secession after they exhibited together in 1900.