Poets' Pub 
Alexander Moffat 1980
'The poets have played the leading role, both in their verse and prose, in shaping the artistic conscience of this country ... In this painting I've attempted to evoke the romance of Edinburgh's Bohemian life of the late 1950's and early 1960's ... The poets are together in a space suggesting Milne's, the Abbotsford and the Cafe Royal, the so-called 'poet's pubs.'
Alexander Moffat

Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith,
George Mackay Brown, Robert Garioch, Sorley MacLean Edwin Morgan

The painting hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

GMB in the Braes Lounge, Stromness
from a card reproduction of the painting by Alexander Moffat  c1980
copyright held by Alexander Moffat
The original hangs in Stromness Academy.  
Alexander Moffat lectures on painting and drawing
at Glasgow School of Art.