Margaret Oliver Brown
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Margaret Oliver Brown (née MacDonald) (20 September 1912 – 17 November 1990) was a Scottish painter and illustrator.[1] She worked as a commercial artist before studying painting at Glasgow School of Art (1937–41). She was a founder member of the New Scottish Group.
Margaret Oliver Brown was born in Glasgow on 20 September 1912. Her father was a marine engineer from North Uist and her mother was from Fife. Brown was brought up in Pollokshields in Glasgow, with her two brothers, Ian and Alex. She attended the Scotland Street School, which was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the early 1900s.[2]
On 4 August 1936 she married William Oliver Brown, a French teacher who was a well known political activist and Scottish nationalist. They had two children: Catriona (b.1944) and Una (b.1948). After her husband's death in 1976, Brown moved to sheltered accommodation in 1980. She moved to Norwich in 1987, to live with her daughter Una. She died on 17 November 1990.[2]