Leslie Hunter

George Leslie Hunter (7 August, 1877 - 6 December, 1931), commonly just called Leslie Hunter, was a Scottish painter and one of the artists of the Scottish Colourists school of painting.

Hunter was born in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute. His family emigrated to California when he was 13, and by the turn of the century he was making a living there as a painter and illustrator. His early work was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and he returned to Scotland shortly afterwards, settling in Glasgow. He held his first one-man exhibition at the Reid Gallery in Glasgow in 1916.

During the 1920s, Hunter came to prominence with Fergusson, Cadell, and Peploe as one of the group of artists who came to be known as the Scottish Colourists. All were influenced, to varying degrees, by the purity, bright colour and brushwork technique of the French Impressionsists, Post-Impressionists and Fauvists.

Hunter is best known for scenes painted in Fife and in the South of France. He died in Glasgow in 1931.

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