John Duncan Fergusson

John Duncan Fergusson (1874 – 1961) was a Scottish painter and was the best known of the Scottish Colorists. He painted mostly landscapes and figure subjects and his early work was Whistlerian. Afterwards, he came under the influence of Manet, but by 1907 he had adopted the bold palette of Fauvism and became the most uncompromising adherent to the style. Soon after his arrival in Glasgow in 1940, he founded the New Art Club to provide better exhibiting facilities for the city's progressive artists and out of it grew the New Scottish Group (1942), of which Fergusson was first president. At this time he was also editor of the periodical Scottish Art and Letters, and he wrote a book entitled Modern Scottish Painting (1943).