A leader of the Art Nouveau movement, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) won international acclaim for his buildings and his interior, furniture, and textile designs, yet his floral paintings and the landscapes he executed late in life are some of his loveliest work.
In 1914, after limited commercial success in his architectural career, Mackintosh and his wife, Margaret, moved from Scotland to the Suffolk coast, where he created floral studies in watercolor. A year later they moved to London, where Mackintosh designed fabrics, furniture, and book covers. By 1923 Mackintosh had given up architecture, and he and Margaret moved to the Mediterranean coast of France, near the Spanish border. There he made sublime watercolors of rural landscapes, hill towns and mountain villages, fishing ports, and local flora. The four paintings reproduced here are among more than forty that Mackintosh completed while in the south of France.
Twenty assorted 5 x 7" full-color blank notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with white envelopes in a decorative box. ISBN 978-0-7649-4059-0.