Museum of Modern Art

Today we visited the Museum of Modern Art. While admittedly not huge fans of modern art, we were still a bit disappointed with the local collection. However, we did make a wonderful discovery: The Scottish Colourists. Notably, Samuel John Peploe, John Duncan Fergusson, George Leslie Hunter, and Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell led this particular artistic movement in their native Scotland. Explore Art writes that the painters became known as "the Scottish Colourists because they grafted their knowledge of contemporary French Art – Monet, Matisse, and Cezanne - onto the painterly traditions of Scotland, redefining the qualities of light and colour in their still life, landscapes, figurative paintings and drawings into their own singular styles."

Here's a sampling of the vibrant, happy Scottish Colourists' work: