Christian Jane Fergusson

Christian Jane Fergusson
Born 14 September 1876
Dumfries
Died 5 January 1957 (aged 80)
Dumfries
Nationality British (Scottish)
Education Dumfries Academy, Crystal Palace School of Art, Glasgow School of Art
Known for Painting

Christian Jane Fergusson (14 September 1876 - 5 January 1957), was a Scottish painter, who was associated with the Glasgow School and known for her landscape and still life works .[1]

Fergusson, who sometimes signed her work as Chris J Fergusson, was born in Dumfries, one of five children of James Stark, a solicitor, and his wife Agnes Waugh Drape. She attended school at the Dumfries Academy before travelling in Europe where she visited France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. When she returned to Britain, Fergusson studied at the Crystal Palace School of Art in London.[1] From about 1900 to 1906 Fergusson attended the Glasgow School of Art, first as a student and then as a tutor. She was awarded one of the first Diplomas awarded at the School of Art. She also taught for a year between 1905 and 1906 on secondment at Kirkcudbright Academy and then as Principal Teacher of Art at the Glasgow High School for Girls. As well as painting, she produced metalwork and tapestry pieces and came to be regarded as one of the group, later, known as the Glasgow Girls. She was also active in the Suffragette movement.[2] Whilst studying at Glasgow she became engaged to David Fergusson, a young solicitor, whom she married in 1908.[1] The couple settled in Maxwelltown where they began to raise a family. In 1922, a year after the birth of her third child, Fergusson was among the co-founders, along with Jessie M. King, E.A. Taylor and E.A. Hornel of the Dumfries and Galloway Fine Art Society, which in its early years, exhibited work by many distinguished Scottish artists.[2] In 1928 Fergusson was elected to the Society of Scottish Artists.[1][3] Fergusson won the Lauder Award from the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists three times, in 1933, 1938 and in 1954.[4]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 WJC Henderson (2010). "Chris J Fergusson (Chris Stark) The life and works of a Dumfries and Galloway artist". Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jim Henderson (24 August 2011). "My grandmother, whose vision was entirely her own". Scottish Review. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Christian Jane (Chris) Fergusson". In the Artists' Footsteps. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  4. ↑ Paul Harris & Julian Halsby (1990). The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present. Canongate. ISBN 1 84195 150 1.

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