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Glasgow School of Art, Heatherley's School of Fine Art
Known for
Wood-engraver and painter
As a prominent teacher he was influential in the development of the British school of wood-engraving.[1] His pictures are noted for clarity of form and composition.[2]
His concepts of the sense of motion which could be created by the shape of repetitive parallel lines were of profound influence, in particular in relation to the art of linocut – an art form which both he and Claude Flight pioneered at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art where with the teachers included Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews.[3]
His work was shown in the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale of 1930.[4]
Iain Macnab was born in Iloilo in the Philippines on 21 October 1890 to Scottish parents, the son of John Macnab of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. The family moved to Scotland when he was young.[5]
Macnab, Iain (1932). Nicht at Eenie : the bairns' Parnassus / With wood-engravings by Iain MacNab. Warlingham, Surrey: Sampson Press. ISBN9780883054222. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)[9] Reprinted 1973, Norwood Editions, USA[10]
Macnab, Iain (1936). Figure drawing. London and New York: The Studio.[11] Revised second edition 1940[12]
Macnab, Iain (1938). The Student's book of wood-engraving. London: Sir Isaac Pitman.[13] Reprinted 1947[14]
Browning, Robert (1938). Selected Poems. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. Wood-engravings by Iain Macnab[15]
^Hal Bishop, 'Macnab, Iain, of Barachastlain (1890–1967)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 30 June 2009
