Margaret MacDonald (1865–1933)

A Scottish artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the Glasgow Style during the 1890s.

Margaret and her sister, Frances MacDonald, were students at the Glasgow School of Art. There she worked in a variety of media, including metalwork, embroidery, and textiles. She was first a collaborator with her sister, and later with her husband, the architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Her most dynamic works are large gesso panels made for the interiors that she designed with Mackintosh, such as tearooms and private residences.

Together with her husband, her sister, and Herbert MacNair, she was one of the most influential members of the loose collective of the Glasgow School known as "The Four". She exhibited with Mackintosh at the 1900 Vienna Secession, where she was a major influence on the Secessionists Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann.