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The Scottish Colourists are S.J. Peploe, G.L. Hunter, F.C.B. Cadell and J.D. Fergusson. The four artists knew each other but did not function as a group or formulate common aims. The colourists were the first recognisable modern Scottish artists and their contribution to Scottish painting was considerable. However, they were united in the fact that they all held French painting in high regard and all spent as much of their time as possible in France before 1914. They admired the work of Cézanne, the Impressionists and the Fauves. Still life painting was an important part of their output, it allowed the artists to experiment with colour and form and show their virtuosity in the handling of their paint. G.L. Hunter Hunter was born in Rothesay, but moved with his family to California at the age of thirteen. He started out as a farmer but gave it up to become a magazine illustrator. On the eve of the opening of his first one-man exhibition an earthquake ruined all of his work. In 1910 Hunters’ family moved back home to Scotland. Hunter himself moved back to his native country shortly after to live in Glasgow. He continued to work as an illustrator in Glasgow until about 1914. It was here shortly before the first world was that Hunter began to take up painting in a more serious manner.
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