This sensitive portrait of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (the Glasgow Four) was painted by my Grandfather’s cousin, Olive Carleton Smyth (1882 – 1949). To my surprise I found this exhibited during my recent visit to the rebuilt Mackintosh House at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
The chapter on the Glasgow School in A Walk in Deep Time discusses Olive’s sister, Dorothy, who was appointed the first woman Director of the Glasgow School of Art. It was very moving to see this example of Olive’s work. I wonder if the Carleton Smyth family and the Mackintoshes ever sat together in this beautiful home.
Morag Smyth 