Tales of the Kirkcudbright Artists

CONTENTS

 

Chapter

 

Page

 

Introduction.............................................................

 1

 

Chronology of Artists Featured................................

 4

 

Map – Places of Artistic Interest in Kirkcudbright.....

 5

 

 

 

1

Hornel Hits the Headlines........................................

 6

2

The Kirkcudbright Boys............................................

 16

3

Why Was There No Mrs Hornel?..............................

 31

4

The Witch on a Bicycle.............................................

 41

5

A Case of Mistaken Identity....................................

 51

6

The Greengate Girls - and Some Others..................

 54

7

Parties and Pastels.................................................

 64

8

Stell Lives................................................................

 69

9

Murder!...................................................................

 80

10

Guardian to Augustus John’s Love-Child.................

 85

11

The Man Who Fell Down the Stairs..........................

 93

12

The Dyspepsia of Mr Peploe....................................

 97

13

Pirates and Pageants..............................................

 101

14

Millburn: A Wee Montmartre....................................

 107

15

Pots and Piety.........................................................

 120

16

The Castle Street Gang...........................................

 123

17

The Belles of St Cuthbert’s......................................

 131

18

Double Dallas..........................................................

 133

19

Jeffs-of-all-Trades....................................................

 137

20

Pioneer Woman.......................................................

 141

21

Oppenheimer Stops the Demolition Men.................

 144

22

Cecile’s Protégé: Home and Away...........................

 152

 

 

 

 

My Dearest Adah......................................................

 158

 

Acknowledgements..................................................

 161

 

Index.......................................................................

 163