The Glasgow Girls and Boys: Painters of a Modern World

by James Knox

The Glasgow Girls and Boys were a group of rebellious young artists who sprang to prominence in the early 1880s as radical painters of rural life in all its stark reality. This book tells their story from their early days painting in rural communities in Scotland and France, to their coming together in Glasgow as painters of modern life, to their years of international fame, hailed as some of the most innovative and experimental painters in Europe and America. For the first time the pioneering women appear alongside their male contemporaries, also revealing the challenges faced by women seeking to forge careers as artists.

Numbering around 20 painters, the group includes John Lavery, Bessie MacNicol, James Guthrie, Joseph Crawhall, Edward Walton, Edward Hornel and Flora Macdonald Reid.

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2020

About the author

James Knox is director of the Fleming Collection. His books include a biography of Robert Byron , The Scottish Country House, and The Glasgow Girls and Boys.