William Scott, R.A.

Leicester Galleries, London
Mr Atkinson
Christie's, London, 11 October 1973, lot 38
Private collection
Magdalene St Gallery, Cambridge
Private collection
Christie's, London, 25 May 1994, lot 2

London, J. Leger and Son, Water-Colour Drawings by William Scott, 3 - 23 February 1945, no. 22
London, Leicester Galleries, Artists of Fame and of Promise, Part Two, 20 August - 19 September 1959, no. 31

Norbert Lynton, William Scott, Thames & Hudson, London 2004, p. 463
Sarah Whitfield (ed.), William Scott Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, Vol. 1, Thames & Hudson, London, 2013, Chronology fig. 52, pp. 33, 34, illustrated in colour

Having been transferred from the Royal Engineers to the Ordnance Section of the Army to work on maps in the early 1940s, William Scott produced a series of naturalistic watercolour landscapes in Ruabon, a village in North Wales. These works, despite their small size, represent a remarkable interest in the medium that differ from his earlier still-lifes and figurative works in oil. Over fifty of these watercolours were exhibited at two Leger Galleries exhibitions in February and December of 1945.