Biography
Henry Matryn Lack (b. Bozeat, Northamptonshire, UK 1908 - d. Hastings, East Sussex 1979) studied at Leicester College of Art and won an exhibition to the Royal College of Art, London gaining his diploma in 1933. He spent two years in Egypt, joining an expedition to Saqqara, recording tomb paintings and carvings. Returning to England he became the school art master at Christ's Hospital, Horsham, from 1937. During WW2 he served in the army and afterwards taught briefly at Northampton School of Art . He later became tutor in the engraving school at the Royal College of Art and from 1953-68 he taught at Hastings School of Art. Then, until his retirement in 1976, he joined the Chicago University team, working in Luxor for six months of each year. He exhibited extensively both abroad and in Britain, at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Engravers (RE). The British Council, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery and the British Museum hold examples of his work.
