King, Jessie M.

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Name (Latin)
King, Jessie M.
Other forms of name
Taylor, Jessie Marion King, 1875-1949
Date of birth
1875-03-20
Date of death
1949-08-03
Occupation
Designers
Illustrators
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 15571437
Wikidata: Q2078865
Library of congress: n 87901640
TAU10: 000192312
Sources of Information
  • Her The city of the west, 1984:t.p. (Jessie M. King)
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, 5 February 2018(Jessie Marion King, married name Taylor; illustrator, designer; born 20 March 1875, in New Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire; died 3 August 1949, in Kirkcudbright, Scotland; married Ernest Archibald Taylor in 1908; she took a course at Queen Margaret College, Glasgow, before studying at Glasgow School of Art from 1892 to 1899, under F. H. (Fra) Newbery, who led the school into a golden era; fellow students included Helen Paxton Brown, Annie French, Ann Macbeth, and Katherine Cameron as well as Margaret and Frances Macdonald, who in 1896 with Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Herbert MacNair launched the influential 'Glasgow style' allied to European art nouveau)
  • White, C. The enchanted world of Jessie M. King, 1989:p. 143, etc. (Jessie Marion King, b. 1875, d. 1949)
  • Wikipedia, 5 February 2018(Jessie M. King; Jessie Marion King (20 March 1875--3 August 1949) was a Scottish illustrator known for her beautiful illustrated children's books; she also designed jewellery and fabric, and painted pottery; King was one of the artists known as the Glasgow Girls)