Tour Scotland 4K short Winter travel video clip of outdoor Christmas lights lighting up the Fergusson Gallery on Marshall Place on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Perth, Perthshire. The Fergusson Gallery celebrates the life and work of the great pioneers of modern art and dance, John Duncan Fergusson and Margaret Morris. John Duncan Fergusson was born ion 9 March 1874 in Leith, Edinburgh, the first of four children. In 1898, Fergusson took his first trip to Paris, France, to study at the Louvre. He became part of the enormous growth in artistic talent that Paris was home to at the beginning of the twentieth century. There he mingled with artists like Matisse and Picasso in the café society for which the city was renowned. In the 1920s Fergusson was settled in a studio in London, England. In 1928 he and his partner, the dancer Margaret Morris, moved to Paris, where they lived until the spectre of war once again loomed over Europe, prompting the couple to move to Glasgow in 1939 where they were to remain for the rest of their lives. A member of Glasgow Art Club, Fergusson exhibited a portrait in the club's exhibition, April 1939. In 1940 Fergusson founded the New Art Club, out of which emerged the New Scottish Group of painters of which he was the first president. In 1943 he published his book on Modern Scottish Painting. On his death, on 30 January 1961, his widow, Margaret Morris, presented fourteen of his paintings to the University of Stirling when it was founded in 1968. His work remains popular, and in 1992 a permanent gallery, The Fergusson Gallery, was founded in Perth to house it. John was a Scottish artist and sculptor, regarded as one of the major artists of the Scottish Colourists school of painting. Christmas lights, also known informally as fairy lights, are lights used for decoration in preparation for Christmas and for display throughout Christmastide. The custom goes back to the use of candles to decorate the Christmas tree in Christian homes in early modern Germany. The first known electrically illuminated Christmas tree was the creation of Edward H. Johnson, an associate of inventor Thomas Edison, on December 22, 1882 at his home on Fifth Avenue in New York City, USA. Perth Water Works, also known as Corporation Water Works, is an historic building in Perth, Scotland, dating to 1832. Standing at the corner of Tay Street and Marshall Place, both part of the A989, the building, a former engine house and water tank, has been the home of The Fergusson Gallery, displaying the work of John Duncan Fergusson, since 1992. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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