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

Arts & Photography

Cumming, Elizabeth

Fowle, Frances

Strang, Alice

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

"An exhilarating broad overview . . . wonderfully illustrated." ―The Observer
"An essential guide and an enjoyable read." ―Antiques Bulletin This volume surveys the highly influential Arts and Crafts design movement – which embraced architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork, textiles and books – in Britain, America and Europe. Although the styles adopted by the movement were diverse, its leading architects, artists and craft–designers, including William Morris, Frank Lloyd Wright, Josef Hoffman and Eliel Saarinen, were united in promoting the moral superiority of "honest" design and natural materials in an industrial age. 167 illustrations

The Arts and Crafts Movement (World of Art)

Kaplan, Wendy

Thames&Hudson

Dublin and Edinburgh were ideally placed to become important centres of the Arts and Crafts movement and its National Romantic corollary, the Celtic Revival. This profusely illustrated volume is the first major study of Arts and Crafts design in these two great capital cities. It examines shared literary, formal and ideological links and values (strongly influenced by radical figures like Patrick Geddes, W.B. Yeats and George Ã«AEÃ Russell), as well as differences, while exploring the ambivalent relationship each city enjoyed with its native cultural heritage and with England. The text is a totally revised and expanded catalogue of the acclaimed exhibition curated by the authors for the 1985 Edinburgh International Festival. Of interest to design, social and cultural historians, the book begins with a joint introduction and two essays which place the achievements of each city within their social and cultural contexts. These are followed by substantial catalogue sections which give biographical accounts of artists, designers, architects and craftsmen and women whose range of work deserves contextual and critical re-evaluation.

The Arts and Crafts Movements in Dublin & Edinburgh 1885-1925

Bowe, Nicola Gordon

Irish Academic Pr

Phoebe Anna Traquair was one of the most remarkable figures in the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Scottish cultural renaissance of the early twentieth century. Born in Dublin, she moved to Edinburgh in 1874 after her marriage to Dr. Ramsay Traquair. A correspondent of John Ruskin, friend of William Holman Hunt and Robert Lorimer, she pursued a successful career as an artist, designer and craft worker and achieved international recognition. This book highlights her astonishing output as an artist and includes her work in a variety of different media such as mural decoration, painting, jewellery, book illumination and embroidery.

Phoebe Anna Traquair 1852-1936

National Galleries Of Scotland

Cadell, Fergusson, Hunter and Peploe produced paintings which are considered some of the most progressive in British art. Featuring commentary on the artists' lives and their involvment in the avante-garde in Paris, this text is illustrated with 140 of the Colourists' inventive paintings.

The Scottish Colourists: 1900-1930

Long, Philip

Cadell, F. C. B.

Ferguson, J. D.

Hunter, James L.

Peploe, S. J.

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland

Books from Scotland Art Book of the Year 2007 A cultural historical tour de force Scottish Art News This handsomely produced volume has set the standard Sunday Herald It is much more than a glossy coffee table book, being a dense but enjoyable history of a fascinating period in Scottish life ... an absorbing tale. The Herald This book is a landmark. - Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History Marvellously informative. - Newsletter of the Historians of British ArtArts and Crafts artist-designers changed the lives of Scots. Through the furnishing of public buildings, exhibitions, church craft and home design, they aimed to restore beauty to everyday experience. They worked in such diverse fields as furniture, textiles, jewellery and metalwork, glass, ceramics, mural decoration and architectural design and crafts. Theirs is a narrative of close networks of families and friends, men and women, designers and industrialists dedicated to the rights of the individual and to the proper place of art within modern society. It is a remarkable and often inspiring story of ideals, commitment and imagination.Scottish Arts and Crafts brought together British design practice with the romance of tradition. This book for the first time provides a national context for the work of Margaret Macdonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Robert Lorimer and Phoebe Anna Traquair. Various chapters look at public art, concepts of tradition, the rise of independent professional women designers, domestic and church buildings, the role of craft within communities, and how Arts and Crafts was finally transformed in the age of Modernism. Many new names emerge from the shadows people such as the entrepreneurial Ayrshire and Carlisle manufacturer James Morton, Robert Maclaurin, Glasgow industrial chemist and co-founder of a Socialist housing colony in Stirling, James Morris, Ayr architect, writer and conservationist, and D. Y. Cameron, known as a landscape artist but also a designer and promoter of church craft. The legacy of Arts and Crafts is still alive in values of craftsmanship and the conservation movement.

Birlinn

Setting out to celebrate, document and discuss the work and role of an international tapestry workshop, Dovecot Studios, since its foundation in Edinburgh in 1912, this ground-breaking publication uniquely explores the artistic value, nature and identity of modern tapestry through images, essays and the commentaries of weavers, artists and patrons. Dovecot Studios has constantly evolved since it was established before the Great War. Initial Arts and Crafts ideals developed into a more proactive engagement with modernism from the 1950s, when designs came from leading British artists such as Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, Stanley Spencer, Cecil Beaton and John Piper. In the 1960s international ambition partnered a quest for experimentation, as characterised by collaborations with artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi, David Hockney, Robert Motherwell and Louise Nevelson. Throughout Dovecot's long history many Scottish artists have worked with the tapestry studio, and their intuitive sense of design and colour has often been richly matched by the imagination of the artist weavers. Experiment and partnership with innovative artists and makers have been, and actively remain, key to Dovecot's unique position within the fields of craft and contemporary art. Discussing Dovecot's history along with its contemporary work, and exploring the range of textiles produced by the Studio - which include wall hangings, chair-cover designs, carpets, textile mobiles and formal robes - The Art of Modern Tapestry offers the definitive account of one of the world's most innovative centres of textile-art production.

The Art of Modern Tapestry: Dovecot Studios since 1912

Lund Humphries

Frontispiece in color, table of contents, acknowledgements, foreword, introduction, and further reading. A book describing the work and life of Phoebe Anna Traquair with numerous color illustrations throughout. 95 pages. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo.

Phoebe Anna Traquair: 1852-1936

A comprehensive chronology lists all known solo exhibitions of the work of Peploe, Fergusson, Hunter and Cadell together with details of their participation in important group exhibitions.

Long, Phlip

Phoebe Anna Traquair was one of the most remarkable figures in the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Scottish cultural renaissance of the early twentieth century. Born in Dublin, she moved to Edinburgh in 1874 after her marriage to Dr. Ramsay Traquair. A correspondent of John Ruskin, friend of William Holman Hunt and Robert Lorimer, she pursued a successful career as an artist, designer and craft worker and achieved international recognition. This book highlights her astonishing output as an artist and includes her work in a variety of different media such as mural decoration, painting, jewellery, book illumination and embroidery.

Phoebe Anna Traquair 1852 - 1936

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S. J. Peploe

The Arts and Crafts Movement (World of Art)

The Arts and Crafts Movements in Dublin & Edinburgh 1885-1925

Phoebe Anna Traquair 1852-1936

The Scottish Colourists: 1900-1930

Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland

The Art of Modern Tapestry: Dovecot Studios since 1912

Phoebe Anna Traquair: 1852-1936

The Scottish Colourists: 1900-1930

Phoebe Anna Traquair 1852 - 1936