ABSTRACT
Roger Benjamin has observed that 'arguments for the involuted status of place within high modern landscape could be made for Derain, Braque or Friesz painting the landscapes of Provence in the wake of Cezanne'. By contrast J. D. Fergusson, S. J. Peploe, Anne Estelle Rice and Jessica Dismorr, who were all connected to the art, music and literature journal Rhythm from 1911, worked more closely together, at times from the same motif. In this sense the 'Rhythmists' were looking for the social cohesion of an artistic community, akin to that found typically in artists' colonies of the nineteenth century. As the journal's art editor, Fergusson produced a design closely related to his painting Rhythm as its cover image. This decorative female nude, perceived as embodying the very essence of rhythm, was shown in its worked-up version after publication of the journal in the summer of 1911 at the 'Salon d'Automne'.
