A virtuoso realist in the classic tradition, Stephen Scott Young remains an anomaly on the modern scene. Major collectors avidly seek his watercolors, but for the most part they are enthusiasts of 19th-century paintings who display his works beside those of the great realists of that century, such as Homer and Eakins. It is impressive, of course, that Young's paintings can survive this stern test and hold up with the best paintings of the American past. In some ways, however, this classic character of Scott's work has led critics to miss its present-day relevance.