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The expression ‘Scottish Colourists’ according to Macmillan may have first been used as early as 1915 in the Studio magazine. Its specific association in print, again according to Macmillan, seems to have been first used by T J Honeyman, [9] the art critic and director of Glasgow Art Gallery, in his book Three Scottish Colourists published ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Scottish art is the body of visual art made in what is now Scotland, or about Scottish subjects, since prehistoric times. It forms a distinctive tradition within European art, but the political union with England has led its partial subsumation in British art .
Scottish Colourists (5 P) Pages in category "20th-century Scottish painters" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 328 total.
[33] [37] The first significant group of Scottish artists to emerge in the twentieth century were the four members of the Scottish Colourists in the 1920s. They have been described as the first Scottish modern artists and were the major mechanism by which Post-Impressionism reached Scotland. [38]