Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 12 works by Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell which date from between 1905 and 1925. This collection includes six oil paintings and six works on paper which display a broad range of subject-matter from most periods of the artist's activity, thus allowing the charting of Cadell's artistic development. Early works are painted in an Impressionistic style with some revealing the influence of Whistler and William McTaggart. Cadell was notably the only Colourist to see war service, an experience he recorded in a series of humorous caricatures published in 1916. The drawings in the collection are associated with this series. After the war, Cadell returned to Edinburgh and began painting a series of interior scenes in which he frequently used his studio as a backdrop. He also painted scenes from the island of Iona and visited Cassis in the south of France, which introduced into his work Fauvist elements that had earlier preoccupied Fergusson and Peploe. The Colourists were a group of Scottish painters active from between 1910 and 1930. These artists, who in many ways succeeded the Glasgow Boys, comprised Francis Cadell, Samuel Peploe, Leslie Hunter, and John Duncan Fergusson. Their work, while not fully recognized at the time, has since become a great influence on contemporary art.
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