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Bright Shadows: Scottish Art in the 1920s

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City Art Centre

12 September 2020 – 6 June 2021

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James Pittendrigh MacGillivray, Portrait of an Artist, William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929), 1920.

Dorothy Johnstone, Rest Time in the Life Class, 1923.

S. J. Peploe, Iona, Mull and Ben More in the Distance, c.1929.

Eric Robertson, Cecile Walton at Crianlarich, 1920.

James Pittendrigh MacGillivray, Portrait of an Artist, William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929), 1920.,

City Art Centre, Museums & Galleries Edinburgh.

D.Y. Cameron, A Garment of War, c.1926. ,

City Art Centre, Museums & Galleries Edinburgh.

Dorothy Johnstone, Rest Time in the Life Class, 1923.,

S. J. Peploe, Iona, Mull and Ben More in the Distance, c.1929. ,

On long-term loan from a private collection. Photo: Antonia Reeve.

Eric Robertson, Cecile Walton at Crianlarich, 1920. ,

On long-term loan from the collection of Russell C. Johnston. Photo: Lyon & Turnbull

An exhibition exploring the styles, ideas and events that shaped Scottish art during the 1920's.

The 1920's was a period of contrasts, high spirits and sombre contemplation, of grand aspirations and hard realities. One hundred years since the dawn of the ‘Roaring Twenties’, Bright Shadows explores the styles, ideas and events that shaped Scottish art during this influential decade.

Selected from the City Art Centre’s own fine art collection, this exhibition presents a range of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. Featured artists include Stanley Cursiter, SJ Peploe, JD Fergusson, Dorothy Johnstone and William McCance. New acquisitions by Eric Robertson and William Wilson are also on display for the first time.