Chica Macnab
{{Short description|Scottish painter and wood-engraver}}
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| birth_name = Ada Jane Macnab
| birth_date = 1889
| birth_place = Iloilo, Philippines
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| education = Glasgow School of Art
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Ada Jane Macnab (1889–1980) known as Chica Macnab, and later as Ada Munro, was a Scottish artist notable as a wood-engraver and painter.
Biography
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.{{cite web |author=|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=116375 |title= Iain Macnab (Biographical details)|date=|accessdate=29 January 2019|work=British Museum}} When the family returned to Scotland, Macnab was educated at Kilmacolm before studying at the Glasgow School of Art from 1922 to 1925.{{cite book|author=Robin Garton|publisher=Garton & Co / Scolar Press|year=1992|title=British Printmakers 1855-1955 A Century of Printmaking from the Etching Revival to St Ives |isbn=0-85967-968-3}} 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.{{cite web |author=|url=http://www.gsaarchives.net/archon/index.php|title= Chica Macnab|date=|accessdate=29 January 2019|work=Glasgow School of Art Archives}}{{cite book|author=Peter J.M. McEwan|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1994|title=The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture|isbn=1-85149-134-1}} Macnab only taught the class for a year, during 1926 and 1927, but her students included Alison Mackenzie.{{cite book|author=Paul Harris & Julian Halsby|publisher=Canongate|year=1990|title=The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present|isbn=1-84195-150-1}} She remained in Glasgow and joined the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 2, M to Z |isbn=0-953260-95-X}} 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. After 1967 she returned to painting and exhibited several oil paintings as Ada Munro. Her brother was also an artist, the painter and printmaker Iain Macnab.
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Category:20th-century British engravers
Category:20th-century Scottish painters
Category:Academics of the Glasgow School of Art
Category:Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art
Category:Scottish wood engravers
Category:British women engravers
Category:British expatriates in the Philippines