I shall call you crocus! The creative life force of Jessie Marion King.
- Tickets
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Free
- Dates and times
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Monday 15th Sept 2025
2:30pm
- Age
- All ages
This year is
the 150th birthday of the phenomenal Glasgow-born illustrator,
designer and creative polymath Jessie Marion King. The birds, animals and
flowers that teemed from King’s pen and imagination were never static but full
of energy and the vibrancy of life. The inherent unbridled joy within King’s
artistic inventions transfers to the viewer like a dopamine hit on a sunny day,
a quality that helped make her the most commercially successful of all the
Glasgow-Style artists. Join Alison Brown, Curator for European Decorative Art and
Design 1851-present for a store visit looking at Jessie’s celebration of the
natural world and how her work compares with that of some of her Glasgow Style
contemporaries.
To book please email glmuseumsadminbookingshub@glasgowlife.org.uk or phone 0141 276 9300.
Image credit: Jessie Marion
King, Greetings card: ‘Kind thoughts like winged birds…’, about 1906-10, ink
and metallic ink on vellum. Bought by Glasgow Museums with the support of the
Heritage Lottery Fund. ©
CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Libraries Collections.
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