Landscape painter and teacher, born in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, who attended the Crystal Palace School of Art, and Glasgow School of Art, 1901–8, gaining two travelling scholarships. Taught at the School of Art and was art mistress at Glasgow High School for Girls and at the Benedictine Convent School, Dumfries. Chris Fergusson, whose husband David was a Dumfries solicitor, joined the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists in 1925 and won its Lauder Award 1933–38–54. She became a member of the SSA in 1928 and joined the SSWA. Was a prolific exhibitor at Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, also showing at RSA, RSW, Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, RA and elsewhere.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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