{"id":2397,"date":"2007-09-25T01:07:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T00:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2008-07-16T01:08:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T00:08:06","slug":"the-art-of-jessie-m-king-1875-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/09\/25\/the-art-of-jessie-m-king-1875-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Jessie M King, 1875\u20131949"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/king.artpassions.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/pomegranates.jpg\" alt=\"pomegranates.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Fisherman and His Soul : Her Feet were Naked<br \/>\nfrom A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde, 1915.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A delicate piece of Orientalism illustrating Wilde&#8217;s book of fairy tales. Jessie Marion King&#8217;s work is a fascinating amalgam of the decorative post-Beardsley style exemplified by Harry Clarke and the Glasgow Style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh&#8217;s Arts and Crafts movement. It&#8217;s unfortunate that her associations with Mackintosh sometimes overshadow her career as an illustrator despite her being as talented and productive as many of her male contemporaries.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Wilde illustrations can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/king.artpassions.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art Passions<\/a> along with a number of other works.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ortakales.com\/illustrators\/King.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jessie M King biography page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fisherman and His Soul : Her Feet were Naked from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde, 1915. A delicate piece of Orientalism illustrating Wilde&#8217;s book of fairy tales. Jessie Marion King&#8217;s work is a fascinating amalgam of the decorative post-Beardsley style exemplified by Harry Clarke and the Glasgow Style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/09\/25\/the-art-of-jessie-m-king-1875-1949\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Jessie M King, 1875\u20131949&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,50,42,48],"tags":[2395,99,1868,116],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-beardsley","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-charles-rennie-mackintosh","tag-harry-clarke","tag-jessie-m-king","tag-oscar-wilde"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-CF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}