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Sep 19, 2023 · Until now the origins of the Scottish Colourists have been traced through the two oldest members, Peploe and Fergusson. It was not until the years running up to the First World War that George Leslie Hunter (1877–1931) and Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883–1937) entered the story.
Nov 30, 2022 · The Scottish Colourists were integrated by four artists: Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, George Leslie Hunter, John Duncan Fergusson, and Samuel John Peploe, probably the best-known member of the group.
- The French Connection
- JD Fergusson
- Francis Cadell
- Samuel Peploe
- Leslie Hunter
- Legacy
At the time, France was the centre of the art world. Independently, all four of the artists spent time in Paris absorbing the excitingly new ideas, after seemingly becoming disenfranchised with the teachings in Scotland. Instead, it was the evocative brushstrokes and painterly freedom of artists like Edouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matissewh...
Despite his late inclusion in the quartet, Fergusson is often cited as the leader of the Scottish Colourists collective and he remains one of the most influential Scottish painters of the 20th century. Largely self-taught, Fergusson enjoyed two spells in France either side of World War I after initially moving to Paris in 1907, where he mixed in ar...
From the age of 16, Cadell (pronounced “Caddle”) studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he was exposed to the French avant-garde of the day. While in France, his exposure to early Fauvism and in particular Matisse, proved to be a lasting influence. Cadell was particularly drawn to Manet’s work, as seen in the bold, flat areas of Interior, T...
Like Cadell, Samuel Peploe, was similarly smitten with the island of Iona. He’d lived in Paris from 1910 to 1912 where was introduced to the use of bold color and was inspired by the bright sunlight of northern France, which he found replicated on the remote Scottish isle. He painted there on many occasions in his distinctive style of geometric pla...
Born on the Isle of Bute, Hunter’s family emigrated to California in 1892 where worked as an illustrator. Little more is known about Hunter’s early artistic life as much of his work was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. However, it’s known that a trip to France had a formative effect on his artistic leanings, as he was particularly dr...
Not only was this “new individual palette and personality” a thrilling deviation from the conservative, realistic approach of much Scottish art prior to the French-infused influence of the Scottish Colourists, but it also proved to be an exciting lightning rod for a future generation of Scottish artists, who would become known as the Edinburgh Scho...
Dec 9, 2023 · The four artists known as the Scottish Colourists, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, John Duncan Fergusson, George Leslie Hunter and Samuel John Peploe, were one of the most talented, experimental and distinctive groups in 20th century British art.
Who were the Scottish Colourists? The term ‘Scottish Colourists’ describes four Scottish painters, Samuel John Peploe, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, GL Hunter and John Duncan Fergusson, a set of radical artist in their day who enlivened the Scottish art scene with the fresh vibrancy of French Fauvist colours.
Today, the four artists known as the Scottish Colourists, S.J.Peploe, J.D. Fergusson, Leslie Hunter, and F.C.B. Cadell are acknowledged as one of the most talented, experimental and distinctive groups in twentieth century British art.
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Upon his establishment as a working artist in Edinburgh, Cadell successfully distinguished himself as a painter of portraits, figure subjects, still lifes and interior scenes, epitomizing the quiet elegance of Edinburgh’s New Town and appealed to its genteel denizens.
