Alexander Graham Munro (1903-1985) attended the Royal Scottish Academy Life School where he won first prize in drawing. In 1925 he won the Chalmers-Jarvis Bursary prize, the Keith prize and the Carnegie traveling scholarship. He studied in Paris with Andre Lhote, and spent time working in Holland, Italy, Denmark and Norway.

During the late 1920s Munro traveled extensively in Morocco, staying for long periods in Marrakesh, Fez, the Ouriki Valley and villages in the Atlas Mountains, and then to Tunisia and Algiers. The watercolours were characterised with intense colour and superb draughtsmanship.

In 1932 he married Ruth Morwood, also an artist. They returned to North Africa and the Mediterranean together on many occasions. He...