{"id":141,"date":"2013-08-04T16:11:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/?p=141"},"modified":"2013-08-11T15:48:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T15:48:30","slug":"john-duncan-fergusson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/2013\/08\/04\/john-duncan-fergusson\/","title":{"rendered":"John Duncan Fergusson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_142\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Perth21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142\" class=\"size-large wp-image-142\" alt=\"Fergusson Gallery\" src=\"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Perth21-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Perth21-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Perth21-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Perth21.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The John Duncan Fergusson Gallery<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Duncan_Fergusson\" title=\"Fergusson\" target=\"_blank\">JD Fergusson<\/a> was a \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scottish_Colourists\" title=\"colourist\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Colourist<\/a> painter born in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEveryone in Scotland should refuse to have anything to do with black or dirty and dingy colours, and insist on clean colours in everything. I remember when I was young any colour was considered a sign of vulgarity. Greys and blacks were the only colours for people of taste and refinement. Good pictures had to be black, grey, brown or drab. Well! let\u2019s forget it, and insist on things in Scotland being of colour that makes for and associates itself with light, hopefulness, health and happiness.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>J. D. Fergusson, Modern Scottish Painting, William MacLellan, Glasgow 1943.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Fergusson Gallery in Perth celebrates the life and work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/search\/belongs_to\/perth-kinross-council-1730_collections\/painted_by\/john-duncan-fergusson_artists\" title=\"BBC Your Paintings\" target=\"_blank\">John\u00a0Duncan Fergusson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/search\/belongs_to\/perth-kinross-council-1730_collections\/painted_by\/margaret-morris_artists\" title=\"BBC Your paintings\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Morris<\/a>,\u00a0pioneers of modern art and dance. The couple were together for nearly 50 years and the collection houses\u00a0artwork, sketchbooks, costume, correspondence, photographs, furniture and hats!<\/p>\n<p>The Gallery is situated in a restored water tower, built from 1829\u201332, designed by Dr Adam Anderson, Rector of Perth Academy. Built in the style of a roman temple, 5 foot thick walls support a 146 000 gallon domed storage tank made from cast-iron sections bolted together. Behind it a boiler house with a chimney 110 foot high can be seen with classically styled chimney pot. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018AQUAM IGNE ET AQUA HAURIO\u2019<br \/>\n(\u2018I draw water by fire and water\u2019). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Fergusson was a \u00a0Scottish Colourist painter born in Edinburgh. \u201cEveryone in Scotland should refuse to have anything to do with black or dirty and dingy colours, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enr.me.uk\/fromthenegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}