The Scottish Colourists
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of works by the Scottish Colourists. It comprises some 100 pieces dating from 1890 to 1940. This significant collection contains paintings, drawings, watercolours and sculptures by the four main Scottish Colourists – Samuel John Peploe, John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell and George Leslie Hunter. Two minor artists associated with the group – George Telfer Bear and John Maclauchlan Milne – are also represented. The collection relates to a broad range of subject matter and allows for the charting of individual artistic careers, stylistic developments and subject preferences. The most significant areas are an excellent group of early landscapes painted in Scotland and France by Fergusson and Peploe, a series of mature landscapes mainly of Scottish views by Peploe, Cadell and Hunter, a small group of Cadell ‘ladies in interiors’, an excellent group of Peploe still lifes and some strong figurative compositions by Fergusson painted in Paris.
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