Elected ARSA: 18 March 1942
Alexander Mason Trotter was born in 1891. A spinal injury in childhood and the several years of restricted activity that followed led to his interest in drawing and a desire to devote himself to art as his primary profession.
He trained at the Edinburgh College of Art and soon gained employment with various publishing firms. Alongside this, he did pictorial work primarily in watercolour and for this, he was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. His work was notable for the dramatic quality with which he painted commonplace objects, including a scullery sink and a bicycle.
He was elected ARSA in 1942.
