Scottish Colourists from The Fleming Collection
19 January - 1 April

The exhibition shows the complete Colourist collection from The Fleming Collection. It is the first time the paintings have been viewed together since 2003.

Samuel John Peploe, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, George Leslie Hunter, and John Duncan Fergusson comprise the group known as the Scottish Colourists. The exhibition highlights the Colourists’ achievements as key players in the introduction of modern art in Britain, among the most forward thinking British artists of the early 20th century.

As well as Scotland, France figured largely in their lives. All were attracted by the lively artistic life of Paris, spending varying periods there as well as in the South of France where they enjoyed the brilliant light of the Côte d’Azur and further west at Cassis. At the time the Post-Impressionism of Cézanne and Van Gogh was giving way to Matisse and the Fauves, only to be followed by Picasso and the cubists.