Sir David Young Cameron, R.A., R.S.A., R.W.S.

Arthur Kay, H.R.S.A. and his wife Katerine Kay (née Cameron), Glasgow;
Spink & Son, London, where bought by Sir David Scott, 16 May 1969 for £460

Aitken Dott and Son, Edinburgh, lent by Arthur Kay H.R.S.A.;
New Zealand and Australia, Empire Art Loan Collection Society, 1934-1935, no. 101 lent by Arthur Kay Esq. H.R.S.A.;
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums in co-operation with the Arts Council of Great Britain, Sir D. Y. Cameron Memorial Exhibition, 1965, lent by Mrs K. Cameron Kay

SHEET The sheet has been laid dow on card and taped to the mount. Good overall condition. MEDIUM Good overall condition. FRAME Held in a gilt-wood frame; under glass
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Cameron was perhaps at his best in the many plein air watercolour sketches of the landscape of his homeland in Scotland. He wrote to Martin Hardie the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum; 'I am never done wondering why collectors wish my simple things, just impressions of beautiful days and places, often in preparation for, or a change from, the heavier oil work or the exacting copper plate' (Bill Smith, D.Y. Cameron, The Vision of the Hills, 1992, p. 103) The present moody view of a shepherdess and her flock caught in the rain, probably dates from the early 1930s when Cameron returned permanently to Scotland. It is likely that it is one of the many sepia drawings made in 1932 for Seton Gordon's books Highways and Byways in the West Highlands or Highways and Byways in the Central Highlands published in 1935 and 1948. This watercolour was given to the artist's sister Katherine (Kate) and her husband Arthur Kay, the Glasgow merchant and art connoisseur.