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They "absorbed and reworked the strong and vibrant colours of contemporary French painting into a distinctive Scottish idiom during the 1920s and 1930s". [12] Peploe stated that his style was an attempt to simultaneously find truth through light, form and colour, while also remain faithful to one’s own emotions and understandings of the art ...
The Coffee Pot, by Samuel Peploe (1905). The first significant group of Scottish artists to emerge in the twentieth century were the Scottish Colourists in the 1920s. The name was retrospectively given to John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961), Francis Cadell (1883–1937), Samuel Peploe (1871–1935) and Leslie Hunter (1877–1931). [2]
Ian Fairweather (1891–1974), Scottish/Australian painter; Christian Jane Fergusson (1876–1957), Dumfries and Galloway landscape and still-life painter; John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961), member of the Scottish Colourists school; Henry Snell Gamley (1865–1928), sculptor specialising in war memorials and tombs; Robert Gavin (1827–1883 ...
The first significant group of Scottish artists to emerge in the twentieth century were the Scottish Colourists in the 1920s. They were John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Cadell, Samuel Peploe and Leslie Hunter, who placed an emphasis on colour above form.
During the 1920s he spent several summers with Samuel Peploe, another Scottish Colourist, on painting trips to Iona, and was also friends with the Scottish architect Reginald Fairlie. Following the death of his close friend Ivor Campbell in World War I, [13] he enlisted, serving in the 9th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the 9th Royal Scots.
Between 1920 and 1940 Quarry Wood collected paintings by the Scottish colourists, advised by Duncan Macdonald of the dealers Alex Reid and Lefevre. [6] In 2016 the collection came onto the market and was described as "one of the most important single groups of Colourist paintings to come on to the market in recent years."
Scottish Colourists (5 P) Pages in category "20th-century Scottish painters" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 328 total.
Samuel John Peploe (pronounced PEP-low; 27 January 1871 – 11 October 1935) was a Scottish Post-Impressionist painter, noted for his still life works and for being one of the group of four painters that became known as the Scottish Colourists. The other colourists were John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Cadell and Leslie Hunter.