Recording Scotland

This scheme dating from the early 1940’s was designed to create employment for artists during World War II and at the same time to build a permanent pictorial record of Scotland under threat of destruction from enemy bombing. Following along the lines of the Recording Britain scheme the final collection comprising approximately 130 water-colour drawings was presented to the University of St Andrews in 1953.

Artists including Stewart Carmichael, Robert Eadie, Andrew Archer Gamley, Alan Ian Ronald, David Foggie, John Guthrie Spence Smith, James Wright, Charles Oppenheimer and Samuel Peploe are represented in the collection.