George Leslie Hunter
George Leslie Hunter was born at Rothesay on the island of Bute on the west coast of Scotland in 1877. He was a Scottish painter and an artists of the Scottish Colourist School of painting. At the age of 13 he moved with his parents to Los Angeles California.
In 1904 a visit to Paris was instrumental in Hunter�s decision to become a painter rather than an illustrator. By the time he returned to San Francisco in 1905 to prepare for his first exhibition, he had amassed a significant number of paintings. Unfortunately, all of this work was destroyed in the great earthquake of 1906.
Undeterred, Hunter returned to Glasgow and in 1916 held his first one-man exhibition at the Reid Gallery. The exhibition found favour with the critics and introduced Hunter to a group of patrons who were to finance him for the next fifteen years.
On his frequent visits to Europe and most notably the South of France in 1922, Hunter was looking for continental inspiration and like his contemporaries who were influenced to varying degrees by the bright colour, purity and brushwork technique of the French Impressionists, Post-impressionists and Fauvists, here we see a bolder and more intense use of colour in Hunter�s landscapes and Still Life paintings.
In 1924 Hunter showed in group exhibitions with the Scottish Colourist first in Paris in 1924 and then in London in 1925. The exhibitions receiving rave reviews.
Hunter is best known for scenes painted in Fife and the South of France. He died in Glasgow in 1931.