Edinburgh School
The Edinburgh School is a group of 20th century artists connected with Edinburgh. They share a connection through Edinburgh College of Art, where most studied and worked together during or soon after the First World War. They were bound together as members of Edinburgh-based exhibition bodies: the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW).
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- 1910
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- United Kingdom
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The Edinburgh School is a group of 20th century artists connected with Edinburgh. They share a connection through Edinburgh College of Art, where most studied and worked together during or soon after the First World War. They were bound together as members of Edinburgh-based exhibition bodies: the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW).
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They predominantly painted still life and Scottish landscapes, and shared an interest in working both in oil and watercolour. Art critic Giles Sutherland, writing in The Times, has suggested: "The work of the Edinburgh School is characterised by virtuoso displays in the use of paint, vivid and often non-naturalistic colour and themes such as still-life, seascape and landscape." The following are generally thought of as Edinburgh School painters. • William Crozier (1893–1930) • William Geissler (1894–1963) • Sir William Gillies (1898–1973) • Sir William MacTaggart (1903–1981) • John Maxwell (1905–1962) • Sir Robin Philipson (1916–1992) • Perpetua Pope (1916-2013) • Anne Redpath (1895–1965) • Adam Bruce Thomson (1885–1976) Some other painters associated with Edinburgh may also be called Edinburgh School artists, or a 'new generation' of the Edinburgh School.
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1910
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1910
Edinburgh School is recorded from 1910.
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Recipes For High-Class Cookery: As Used In The Edinburgh School Of Cookery (1930) — Internet Archive
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Naming and authority record. Those registers additionally record the form School of Agriculture (Edinburgh). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
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