The Story of Scottish Art

Lachlan Goudie looks at art in the years between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War, examining how a new generation of artists captured the spirit of Scotland at the dawn of a modern age. He explores how the Glasgow Boys set out to reflect the lives of ordinary people, in a move away from romanticised highland views, and he discovers how Arthur Melville pushed the boundaries of watercolour painting. He also looks at William McTaggart's landscapes, Charles Rennie Mackintosh's re-working of old-age forms, and JD Fergusson's series of canvases that were simultaneously modern, Continental and Scottish