John Duncan Fergusson
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 24 works by John Duncan Fergusson which date from between 1898 and 1924. This collection contains 15 oil paintings, seven works on paper and two sculptures which display a broad range of subject-matter from most periods of the artist's activity, thus allowing the charting of Fergusson's artistic development. The exponents of contemporary French Art were a source of inspiration for Fergusson throughout his career and this is found in his early landscape paintings. There is also a remarkable group of figurative compositions painted in Paris between 1907 and 1911 which includes 'The Pink Parasol: Bertha Case', one of the most ground-breaking works ever produced by the Colourists. Other works such as 'Torse de femme' from about 1911 and 'Eastre, Hymn to the Sun' from around 1924 illustrate Fergusson's predominant interest in the female form while revealing his leanings towards Cubism and his concerns for geometric shapes and angular planes. This influence can also be traced in his later landscapes. 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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