Belinda Thomson

Lesley Stevenson

Frances Fowle

National Galleries of Scotland

Book deals chiefly with Gauguin's "Jacob wrestling with the angel."

Gauguin's Vision

Alice Strang

Elizabeth Cumming

Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935) was the eldest of the four artists popularly known as "The Scottish Colourists." Born in Edinburgh, he was drawn to France and returned to paint there frequently, moving in 1910 to Paris, where he moved in artistic avant-garde circles. His painting style gave way to a more contemporary and expressive approach, and he used rich colors applied with more structured brushstrokes. In 1912 Peploe returned to Edinburgh and slowly began to build a successful career as an exhibiting artist. From around 1914 until his death, he sought to paint the perfect still life. A modest selection of props, including roses or tulips, fans, books, fruits, and Chinese vases, were carefully placed in infinite varieties on patterned drapery. In 1929 he explained: "There is so much in mere objects, flowers, leaves, jugs, what not—colors, forms, relation—I can never see mystery coming to an end." This beautifully illustrated book accompanies a major exhibition devoted to the artist in his home town of Edinburgh, and throws fascinating new light on Peploe's life, on the influence of France on his work, and on his posthumous reputation.

S. J. Peploe

Vivien Hamilton

American Federation of Arts

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum

Kelvingrove Art Gallery

Speed Art Museum (Louisville, Ky)

Glasgow Museums

J.B. Speed Art Museum

Frick Art & Historical Center (Pittsburgh, Pa)

Albuquerque Museum

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (Kalamazoo, Mich.)

The City of Glasgow possesses an internationally renowned collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. This magnificent book, the catalogue for a major exhibition, features sixty-four of the finest paintings in this collection, including important works by Rousseau, Corot, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, Derain, Matisse, and Rouault. The lavishly illustrated book provides a short essay on each work as well as full catalogue details. There are also four introductory essays by prominent scholars that set the paintings in context. Irene Maver examines the social, political, and economic environment of Glasgow from its beginnings until the First World War; Frances Fowle charts the taste for French art in the west of Scotland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; Hugh Stevenson explores the early history of the city's collection and its assimilation of contemporary French paintings; and Belinda Thomson discusses how Glasgow's collection relates to the wider historical context of French painting of the period.

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century French Painting from Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow

Millet to Matisse

A collection of essays which look in depth at the political, economic, scientific, religious and art historical context for this complex and often contradictory period in Monet's lfie.

Vétheuil and Normandy

Monet and French Landscape

Frances Fowle

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