Iain Macnab 'Nude' - collected by Ian nudes watchful woman fills the frame

watchful woman fills the frame

It is evocative and mysterious – a vestige of feeling over exactness

Cartoonish and canary yellow

he experiments with texture and line

Neil Caffin (born 1915)

Iain Macnab 'Nude' - collected by Ian nudes watchful woman fills the frameThough Iain Macnab worked as a prolific printmaker and painter throughout his life, perhaps his most significant achievement was founding the radical Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London in 1925. Many significant printmakers studied under Macnab during the interwar period among them a cohort of Australian artists including Peter Purves Smith, an early proponent of Surrealism in Australia, as well as major female printmakers Dorrit Black, Ethel