Leslie Hunter
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The Beach, Largo, at Low Tide, date unknown, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums |
George Leslie Hunter (
7 August,
1879 -
6 December,
1931) was a
Scottish painter and one of the artists of the
Scottish Colourists school of painting.
Hunter was born in
Rothesay on the
Isle of Bute. His family emigrated to
California when he was 13, and by the turn of the century he was making a living there as a painter and
illustrator. His early work was destroyed in the
1906 San Francisco earthquake, and he returned to Scotland shortly afterwards, settling in
Glasgow. He held his first one-man exhibition at the
Reid Gallery in Glasgow in
1916.
During the
1920s, Hunter came to prominence with
Fergusson,
Cadell, and
Peploe as one of the group of artists who came to be known as the Scottish Colourists. All were influenced, to varying degrees, by the purity, bright colour and brushwork technique of the
French Impressionsists,
Post-Impressionists and
Fauvists.
Hunter is best known for scenes painted in
Fife and in the South of France. He died in Glasgow in 1931.
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