Exhibition celebrates Fergusson anniversary
THIS year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of John Duncan Fergusson, the longestlived and most international of the pioneering group of artists known as the Scottish Colourists.
To mark the occasion, fine art auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull has curated a special touring exhibition of Fergusson’s paintings and sculptures – A Scottish Colourist at 150: JD Fergusson – in partnership with the London-based Fleming Wyfold Art Foundation.
The exhibition – featuring a selection of more than 20 paintings and sculptures – is set travel to Lyon & Turnbull’s Gallery on Bath Street in Glasgow.
It opens in Glasgow, the city Fergusson called home for the last two decades of his life, on Monday.
All the works to be shown have been lent from private collections and by the Fleming Wyfold Art Foundation, owner of what is considered the finest collection of
Scottish art, from the seventeenth century to the present day, outside public institutions.
Featuring more than 25 works by Fergusson, the exhibition has been co-curated by Lyon & Turnbull’s senior specialist in modern and contemporary art, Alice Strang, and James McNaught, the company’s head of business development.
Born in 1874 in Leith, near Edinburgh, JD Fergusson is one of the four artists, along with fellow Colourists FCB Cadell, GL Hunter and SJ Peploe, who are revered as the masters of modern Scottish art.
Co-curator Alice Strang said: “The works on display follow Fergusson’s emergence as an artist of sophistication in Edwardian Edinburgh
“A selection of sculptures reveal Fergusson’s lesser-known talents as the only sculptor amongst the Colourists, led by the celebrated Eástre (Hymn to the Sun) of 1924.”