ABSTRACT
The momentum towards a cultural and political renaissance in Scotland was intensified in 1930 when the wealthy American James Huntington Whyte became a resident of St Andrews. Whyte was both founder and editor of the influential literary magazine the Modern Scot, and an important figure in the development of contemporary Scottish art. When the Modern Scot appeared it joined only a very small band of nationalist journals exploring the links between politics and culture. Accompanying the exhibition 'Modern Scottish Art' was a catalogue that included 'the replies contributed by the artists to a questionnaire on modern art'. While the literary figures of the Scottish Renaissance were secure with regard to the written tradition, the painters displayed a degree of hesitancy in relation to Scottish art. Sydney d'Horne Shepherd's principal contribution to the Modern Scot was his line drawings that were mainly of notable contributors like Edwin Muir, Francis George Scott, and James Bridie.
