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James Herbert McNair (23 December 1868 – 22 April 1955), was a Scottish artist, designer and teacher whose work contributed to the development of the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) during the 1890s.
15 de jul. de 2015 · Professor of English and Art History, Brown University. James Herbert MacNair (1868-1955) is the least well known member of the so-called "Glasgow Four," a group of designers that also included the great Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret and Frances Macdonald. MacNair was born in Glasgow, educated at the Collegiate School ...
Scottish-born Herbert MacNair was a highly individual designer and talented teacher. He made an important contribution in the early 1890s to the development of Mackintosh’s creative imagination, and his paintings and furniture designs were among some of the most most individual of the Glasgow Style of the 1890s.
James Herbert McNair (1868-1955) es el miembro menos conocido de los llamados “Cuatro de Glasgow”. McNair nació en Glasgow, educado en la Collegiate School, Greenock. Su padre deseaba que se convirtiera en Ingeniero.
Mackintosh, Herbert MacNair y las hermanas Margaret y Frances Macdonald, que más tarde se llamarían Los Cuatro, conocieron a Beardsley, Voysey y Toorop a través de la revista The Studio. Su producción recoge elementos simbolistas que proceden del prerrafaelismo, pero están “enriquecidos” por el poeta lírico belga Maeterlinck.
Sería en las clases nocturnas donde conocería a las personas con las que más tarde formaría el grupo The Four (los Cuatro), las hermanas Frances Macdonald y Margaret Macdonald, con quien más tarde se casaría, y Herbert MacNair, colega de trabajo en estudio de Honeyman & Keppie, donde entraría a trabajar en 1889 y permanecería hasta 1913. 2 En ...
James Herbert MacNair [commonly known as Herbert MacNair; also known as J. Herbert McNair; and as Bertie McNair] was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 23 December 1868. After studying painting in Rouen, France for a year, he was articled as an architect to John Honeyman (1831-1914) and his office, Honeyman & Keppie in Glasgow from 1888 to 1894.
