Herbert MacNair

The Immortals at Glasgow School of Art (Back Row: Margaret MacDonald. Middle Row L-R: Frances MacDonald, Katharine Cameron, Janet Aitken, Agnes Raeburn, Jessie Keppie and her brother John Keppie. Front Row L-R: Herbert MacNair and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

James Herbert "Bertie" MacNair, also spelt as 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. He formed the Glasgow-based artist group The Four together with his wife, Frances MacDonald, and his in-laws; Margaret MacDonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

The Four All four later became the loose collective of the Glasgow School known as "The Four", MacNair being the least well known. Influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, and other European movements such as Symbolism and Art Nouveau, they pioneered the Glasgow Style. MacNair set up his own studio at 225 West George Street, Glasgow, in 1895, where he worked as a designer producing furniture, book illustrations, water colours and posters. He returned to Glasgow where he worked as a postman and as a manager in a garage. After the death of his wife in 1921, MacNair destroyed all of their works that he had in his possession. He then moved to an old people's home, where he lived until his death in 1955.