Article Source: The Scottish Gallery
Last Updated: 24 January 2025 17:29
The Scottish Gallery Press is delighted to launch a new, 80 page hardback book, offering a fresh history of The Scottish Colourists and insight into The Scottish Gallery and their personal association with the artists. This beautifully illustrated edition is limited to 500 copies and will be available for £14.95 + p&p. It will be printed and available for purchase in March 2025, coinciding with The Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives at Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh.
This publication draws on the archives of The Scottish Gallery (est. 1842), along with updated text spanning four decades, written by Guy Peploe, the grandson of S.J. Peploe and a leading expert on The Scottish Colourists. The Peploe family and The Scottish Gallery have enjoyed a long-standing artistic, personal, and professional relationship since 1903.
Samuel John Peploe (1871–1935), John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961), George Leslie Hunter (1877–1931) and Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883–1937), form a group of four artists known as The Scottish Colourists. They played a pivotal role in the development of the modern art movement in Scotland and today their legacy is recognised internationally. As individual artists they developed and responded to the tumultuous changes that took place in the first half of the twentieth century. Together, their emphasis on colour, strong design, and plein air landscape practice created art which seems to contain Scottish characteristics; rugged, vivid, unpretentious and celebratory.
Author:
Guy Peploe is a former managing director of The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh. He is the grandson of S.J. Peploe, and the acknowledged expert on his grandfather’s work. He has written and lectured extensively on S.J. Peploe and The Scottish Colourists.
Book Launch:
The Scottish Gallery Press will launch The Scottish Colourists at Dovecot Studios on 3 April 2025. Guy Peploe will discuss the work of the four colourists, the friendship between S.J. Peploe, J.D. Fergusson and F.C.B Cadell, and will highlight the work that The Scottish Gallery undertook in helping promote The Scottish Colourists with personal, professional and artistic insight.
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