Iain Macnab 1890-1967
Overview
Mediterranean Village, North Africa, exhibited 2017 - SOLD
Iain Macnab was born in the Philippines, the son of an official in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. His family move to Kilmalcolm in 1894, and in 1917 he took up his studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Until 1926 MacNab worked as an etcher, then turning to wood engraving, a medium in which he excelled. He often worked in Spain, Corsica and the South of France.
In 1925, Macnab became the founding Principal of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art at his house in Pimlico, where students included Sybil Andrews, Cyril Power, Gwenda Morgan and Lill Tschudi.
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Works
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Iain Macnab, Southern Landscape, 1933£2,200 + 4% ARR -
Iain Macnab, Portrait of a Lady£7,500 + 4% ARR
Exhibitions
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Wartime
26 Apr - 7 Jun 2025Read more -
The Print Show
14 Jan - 15 Feb 2025Read more -
Twentieth Century
16 Nov - 23 Dec 2024Modern paintings, drawings, ceramics and textiles from the 20th century: Maxwell Armfield Robert Henderson Blyth RSA RSW William Crosbie RSA Pat Douthwaite Ian Fleming RSA RSW William Gillies RA RSA...Read more -
Art & Design
1890 - 1950 22 Mar - 1 Jun 2024Read more -
20th Century Printmaking
1 Feb - 16 Mar 2024Read more -
History of the New
1 Jun - 29 Jul 2023Our summer show brings together artists who found themselves working at the threshold of the modern. It was this self-awareness and urge to make it new that motivated them as...Read more -
From the Window
Online Exhibition 23 Mar - 6 May 2023Artists have often depicted windows as portals between two realms: the real and the imagined, the intimate and the unfamiliar. It is a divide between a private place and a...Read more -
The Print Show
12 Jan - 17 Feb 2023Read more
