Art Term

Scottish Colourists

Group of four Scottish artists, who were among the first to introduce the intense colour of the French fauve movement into Britain in the 1920s

The artists were Francis Cadell, Leslie Hunter, Samuel Peploe and J.D. Fergusson – who was the leading figure.

Fergusson visited Paris regularly from the 1890s on and then lived there from 1907–14. The experience of that close contact with the avant-garde art scene in Paris stayed with him all his life.

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