  
The images reproduced in this folio illustrate the change taking place in Margaret Macdonald's work toward the end of the 1890’s. Her earlier pieces had a haunting, even spectral aspect; fresh and innovative though they were, they possessed a brooding quality. By contrast, these images from 1897 are warmer, more ambiguous in their lines, and somehow romantic, with a broader palette in evidence. They are unabashedly attractive. Like several women of the Glasgow School, Margaret Macdonald and her sister, Frances, worked in metal. Summer and Winter originally reposed in a pair of beaten lead frames, worked to a high relief of vines and flowers and thought to have been a collaborative effort between the sisters.
Ten full-color blank notecards (5 each of 2 styles) with envelopes in a decorative folio. ISBN: 0-7649-2994-1.
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