The Scottish Colourists were a group of four painters, three from Edinburgh, whose Post-Impressionist work, though not universally recognised initially, came to have a formative influence on contemporary Scottish art and culture. The four artists, Francis Cadell, John Duncan Fergusson, Leslie Hunter and Samuel Peploe, were prolific painters spanning the turn of the twentieth century until the beginnings of World War II. While now banded as one group with a collective achievement and a common sense of British identity, it is a misnomer to believe their artwork or their painterly careers were heterogeneous.
Francis Cadell, The Vase of Water, 1922
Samuel Peploe, The Black Bottle, about 1905, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Scottish art is the body of visual art made in what is now Scotland, or about Scottish subjects, since prehistoric times. It forms a distinctive tradition within European art, but the political union with England has led its partial subsumation in British art.
Part of the combination of sculpture and landscape used at Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta
The Torrs Pony-cap and Horns, as displayed in 2011
A replica of the Hilton of Cadboll Stone
One of the Stirling Heads showing James V