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Nan Lawson Cheney was a Canadian painter, medical artist, and potter. Nan Lawson was born in Nova Scotia and studied at Boston School of Fine Arts and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. She also studied medical illustration at Johns Hopkins University and worked as a medical artist at McGill University. In 1924 she married Hill Cheney. In 1937, the couple moved to Vancouver, and Cheney became UBC's first medical artist, a position held until 1962. Cheney was friends with Emily Carr, Lawren Harris and Jock Macdonald, accompanying them on sketching trips. Her portrait of Emily Carr hangs in the National Gallery in Ottawa.