THE JOURNAL

OWNERS OF THE SOIL:

WILL MACLEAN & SHAUN FRASER

We explore the contexts of our Edinburgh Art Festival exhibition with an essay written by Gerry Carruthers, Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow.

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THE SOCIETY OF

TWENTY-FIVE PAINTERS

Patrick Duffy looks back to 1924, when The Fine Art Society played host to the final exhibition of the elusive Society of Twenty-Five Painters.

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MARK GERTLER:

A FAMILY HISTORY

Florrie Evans and Patrick Duffy pay a visit to Jeannette Gertler, the niece of the artist Mark Gertler, and her son Mark Paros, to talk to them about Gertler and his legacy.

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KIRKCUDBRIGHT:

AN ARTISTS' COLONY

Ahead of our annual August exhibition at Harbour Cottage Gallery, Kirkcudbright we consider the place that Galloway and its landscape has in the last 200 years of Scottish art.

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NEW DISCOVERIES:

GUTHRIE & THE GLASGOW BOYS

The Glasgow Boys' rise to prominence in the 1880s injected a new sense of modernity into the British art scene. Recently, two pictures by leading member of the group, Sir James Guthrie, have come to light, which had remained untraced since their execution.

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HYLTON NEL

POTS, POLITICS & THE WISDOM OF CATS

Professor Tamar Garb considers Hylton Nel's beloved cats and their role as both curiosities and ornaments ahead of his forthcoming exhibition, Hylton Nel at Eighty.

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IN THE STUDIO

WITH ANTHONY WHISHAW

“I try and catch the moment before your eye settles”. Ahead of his autumn exhibition, Florrie Evans provides her reflections of the home-studio of Anthony Whishaw RA.

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JOAN EARDLEY

BY OSCAR MARZAROLI

As we commemorate the centenary of Joan Eardley's birth, we celebrate her legacy through the words of friend and photographer Oscar Marzaroli, who takes us behind her familiar oils and pastels.

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LOOKING BACK:

145 YEARS IN BUSINESS

Patrick Duffy looks back into the archives for inspiration: from the artworks and objects we’ve handled, to the collections we’ve helped cultivate, and the fashions we started…

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ILLUSIONIST

BARBARA BALMER: ARTIST IN FOCUS

Emily Walsh examines the dream-like landscapes of Scottish artist Barbara Balmer.

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UTOPIA?

KEITH COVENTRY: ARTIST IN FOCUS

Florrie Evans considers how Keith Coventry's Hertford Estate neatly constructs and evokes a moment in history through shape and colour.

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SCOTTISH NATIONAL IDENTITY IN ART

As we mark the 275th anniversary of Culloden, we look at the ebb and flow of Scottish national identity in art, and how these changes reflect the way we perceive 'Scottishness' today.

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DOMESTIC LIFE

As the past year has pushed the domestic front and centre, Emily Walsh considers the depiction of the quotidian in Scottish Art, from Sir David Wilkie to Oscar Marzaroli

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JOHN MCLEAN

COLOUR IN THE INTERIOR

Florrie Evans explores how John McLean’s vibrant works hum and buzz with playful energy and movement, picking up from Matisse and running onwards and elsewhere.

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MODERN PRINTMAKING

WILSON & FLEMING

Jamie Mackinnon on William Wilson and Ian Fleming: two artists who heralded an invigoration of Scottish printmaking in the 1930s and 40s.

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QUEERING COUPLES

The acclaimed actor and biographer, Diana Souhami, explores some of the many extraordinary lives of the women who helped shape the history of modernism.

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COUPLES

A CONVERSATION

Independent curator and art advisor, Selina Skipwith, speaks to Nicole Farhi about the inspiration  and influences for her current show, Couples, held at our London gallery. 

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JOHN McLEAN

ARTIST IN FOCUS

John McLean in profile. Ahead of our New Year exhibition on the Scottish abstract artist, we are delighted to announce representation of John McLean's estate.

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E A WALTON

A FRAME OF 'RADICAL SIMPLICITY'

What goes into framing a painting? We take a closer look at the importance of the reframing process.

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THE BEST SHOP RETURNS

As The Fine Art Society reopens its doors on London's Carnaby Street, Rowena Morgan-Cox looks back at the historical web of artists and artworks that tie our past to our future.

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AGNES MILLER PARKER

artist in focus

Agnes Miller Parker: a female anomaly of her time. Emily Walsh explores how this independent thinker was unafraid to reject societal norms and conventions of womanhood.

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ERIC VERRICO

the most beautiful of johnny's circus

He was the most beautiful of Johnny's Circus. But just who was Eric Verrico? We take a deeper look at the enigmatic sitter and his relationship with the prolific bohemian artist.

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PLYWOOD

the unlikely modern icon

Plywood is the most unexpected of materials to work its way into the common vocabulary of Modernist British design. We take a better look at this most unlikely modern icon.

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