Chica Macnab

Macnab was born in the Philippines in the province of Iloilo where her Scottish parents were based while her father worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.^[1] When the family returned to Scotland, Macnab was educated at Kilmacolm before studying at the Glasgow School of Art from 1922 to 1925.^[2] She became a founding member of the Glasgow-based Society of Artist Printers and as soon as she graduated, the Glasgow School employed Macnab to establish and run a class on lithography and colour block printing.^[3][4] Macnab only taught the class for a year, during 1926 and 1927, but her students included Alison Mackenzie.^[3][5] She remained in Glasgow and joined the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists.^[6] In 1927 Macnab married James Munro, a chemist, and after she started to raise a family appears to have put her artistic career on hold.^[2] After 1967 she returned to painting and exhibited several oil paintings as Ada Munro.^[2][6] Her brother was also an artist, the painter and printmaker Iain Macnab.^[1][6]