"The Watch" Hilton Leech (1906-1969). Sight Size: 29.5 x 47.5 inches. Oil/Board. Signed lower right. With original gallery label verso. Leech won the American Watercolor Society purchase prize, the Audubon Society of Artists Casein Award, the Morse Medal at the National Academy of Design, the Knickerbocker Artists Medal of Honor and Gold Medal of Honor, the Allied Artists Association, New York. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the American Federation of Art, the Salmagundi Club, the Florida Artist Group and Watercolor US Selected Museum and Public collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL; The Contemporary Art Collection at the University of Florida, Tallahassee, FL; Museum of Art, Hickory, NC; The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota, Sarasota, FL; The Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY; The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Indianapolis Museum, Indianapolis, IN; Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Eastport, ME; Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY; Show Folks of Sarasota, FL; Florida Maritime Museum of Cortez, FL; Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, IN