Before reaching the reconstruction of the interior of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Mcdonald’s Glasgow house at the Hunterian Art Gallery there are some other Mackintosh exhibits to see.

Model of unbuilt house. (This bears many similarities to Hill House in Helensburgh):-

Candlesticks designedby Charles Rennie Mackintosh:-

Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed cutlery:-

book covers. Mackintosh designed many of these for the publisher Blackie:-

Poster and Stair Hanging:-

Windows and hangings:-

Tapestry:-

Chandelier, tapestry and fireplace:-

Pottery collections:-

Glassware:-

Duff House is now a location for the display of artworks from the National Galleries of Scotland, as is evidenced by the paintings in the photos below:-

This week I visited Dundee’s McManus Art Gallery and Museum to see the exhibition A Weather Eye. I got to it late. It finishes on Sunday 11/5/25: tomorrow!

Each painting was accompanied on its information board by a Scots word to do with weather or the image depicted.

The quality and interest of course varied.

My highlights were:-

Island by James Howie; accompanied by the word ‘loom’.

Alec Grieve’s Sunset on the Tay; ‘gloamin’.

Storm at Sea Remembered by Jon Schueler; ‘doister’.

The Tay Road Bridge by James McIntosh Patrick; ‘braw’.

Stanley Cursiter’s Rain on Princes Street; ‘evendoon’.

The above were all available to look at on the website Art UK.

The one below wasn’t; so here’s my photo of it.

William Cadenhead’s New Snow, Catlaw; ‘owerblaw’.

Coendersborg is a country estate in the village of Nuis in the Dutch province of Groningen.

Estate house:-

The hall:-

Painting in above photo:-

Fireplace in another room:-

Latin motto on a wall:-

Painting of house:-

On our trip west last April, as well as taking in the Willow Tea Rooms  (see previous posts) we also visited the Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Hill House again.

It’s undergoing evaluation for remediation of the water ingress problems it was suffering from. I showed the cage it has been shrouded in here.

You can see some of the interior features in various posts I made in 2022. Look for Hill House in my search box.

Gates to Hill House:-

Information Boards:-

Some of the harling removed as part of the investigation into procedures to remediate the water ingress problem:-

Adjacent gable:-

Patch as part of remediation investigations:-

Two windows:-

Vertical window:-

Wall plaque (which looks like a design by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, wife to Charles Rennie Mackintosh):-

Upper Level:-

Fireplace, upper level:-

Seating, upper level:-

Seating:-

Fireplaces, lower level:-

Balcony from below:-

Glass partition at stairs:-

Stairs:-

Lower floor from top of stairs:-

Lower level from balcony:-

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These Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed tea rooms – for the famous Miss Cranston – were privately refurbished in the past few years but are now in the care of the National Trust for Scotland and seem to go by the name Mackintosh at the Willow, but that’s also the title of the affiliated gift shop next door.

We visited them because we hadn’t been there before but also to have lunch; which was excellent.

Sauchiehall Street was having work done on it at the time:-

In the photo above you can make out the circular design fronting the windows. This is a close-up:-

The Tea Rooms’ street sign:-

Internal lighting gantry:-

Wall frieze and partition wall below:-

These window curtains help diners escape scrutiny from outside:-

Among other exhibits there are of course many prieces by Hepworth herself at The Hepworth Wakefield.

These are typical Hepworth sculpted forms:-

To left and centre; Two Forms and Three Oblique Forms:-

To right above; Three Hemispheres:-

Maquette for Sculpture for Waterloo Bridge:-

Winged Figure:-