Iain MacNab PROI RE (1890-1967)

Iain MacNab of Barachastlain was one of the most original printmakers of twentieth century Scottish art MacNab was educated in Edinburgh before studying at Glasgow School of Art and then Heatherley’s in 1918. He was appointed principal of Heatherley’s School of Art between the wars and later founder principal of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. He exhibited at all the major public venues, including the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute and the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil of which he served as president for nearly twenty years. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the V & A, the British Museum and the Ashmolean, Oxford.