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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.
James Herbert MacNair (23 de diciembre de 1868 - 22 de abril de 1955) fue un artista, diseñador y profesor escocés cuyo trabajo contribuyó al desarrollo del estilo moderno (estilo Art Nouveau británico) durante la década de 1890.
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.
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 ...
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.
Cuatro figuras clave, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert MacNair, Margaret y Frances MacDonald fueron conocidos como "The Glasgow Four". La Escuela de Arte de Glasgow fue una de las más importante del Reino Unido, esto se debió en gran parte al liderazgo de su director, Francis Newbery.
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.
