In 1949 Moser travelled to Scotland to photograph leading Scottish artists and writers as an assignment for American ‘Vogue’. This photograph shows the artist and playwright Osborne Henry Mavor who wrote under the pseudonym James Bridie. He is pictured holding a pile of books, one of which is an exhibition catalogue for an Allan Ramsay show. Mavor Graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Medicine and he continued to practice, until taking on a full time career as a dramatist. He would go on to found the Glasgow Citizens’ theatre in 1943.