George Leslie Hunter
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 44 works by George Leslie Hunter which date from between 1920 and 1927. This collection includes 26 oil paintings and 18 works on paper which display a broad range of subject-matter from most periods of the artist's activity, thus allowing the charting of Hunter's artistic development. Hunter was largely concerned with capturing the effects of light in both his landscapes and still-lifes, often painting the same motifs repeatedly under different lighting conditions. The first evidence of this is in the pictures Hunter painted in Venice in 1922. From 1923 to 1927 Hunter worked mostly in Scotland, particularly in Loch Lomond and Fife. Between 1926 and 1929 Hunter was in the south of France and several drawings from this period reveal Hunter's enchantment with the region's unique quality of light. Historically the most interesting portrait in the collection is that of Dr Tom J Honeyman who was Director of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum between 1939 and 1954. The Colourists were a group of Scottish painters active 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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