Society of Eight

Society of Eight
Formation1912
Founded atEdinburgh
Dissolved1939
PurposeArtist Group
Headquarters12 Shandwick Place
Location
  • Edinburgh, Scotland
ServicesExhibition Galleries
FieldsArts
Membership
Maximum of 8 artists

The Society of Eight was an artistic grouping of Scottish painters. The Society set up its own gallery space in Edinburgh to exhibit their work. It was founded in 1912 and last exhibited in 1938. The Society did not reform after the Second World War.[1]

  1. ^ The Dictionary of Scottish Painters. 1600 to the present. Paul Harris and Julian Halsby. Canongate Publishing. 1990.