1922 Group

This obscure Group was comprised entirely of a core group of ex-students from the Edinburgh College of Art several of whom had been awarded Travelling Scholarships which were taken in Paris. They returned to Scotland having allegedly been significantly influenced by French modernist art such as Cubism. Their main artistic aim was to exhibit outside the regular venues of the RSA and SSA and to veer away from what they believed to be establishment artists and traditional Scottish Colourists. To this end, they formed the 1922 Group. The members and exhibitors included Arthur Couling, William Crozier, William Gilles, William Geissler, David Gunn, George Wright Hall, William MacTaggart, John Maxwell and George Watson. They exhibited at the New Gallery in Samuel Peploe's Shandwick Place studio in the Scottish capital and probably held shows until c. 1931.