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SCOTTISH Colourists

The Scottish Colourists is a collective name given to Samuel Peploe, John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Cadell and Leslie Hunter, four Edinburgh painters who made their mark at the dawning of the 20th century. Each artist created elegant portraits, blocky still life and fond Scottish scenes, reworking the techniques of the French Impressionists into something bolder and distinctive, forsaking pastel blues for bright primary hues.

A question often asked of the group is whether they festishised light and colour because their surroundings in the early 20th century had so little of

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