| Ian Fleming was born in Glasgow, where he attended the School of Art in 1924-29. Held a travelling scholarship at the Royal College of Art, studied in France and Spain. Taught at the Glasgow School of Art in 1931-48, at Hospitalfield in 1948-54, then he was principal of Gray's School in Aberdeen in 1954-72, where he developed printmaking. Elected RSA in 1956. Fleming scored an early success in 1931 when he engraved Gethsemane, bought by the French Government and also in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Glasgow School of Art hold examples of his work. Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde were his pupils. |
