Khalid Iqbal is widely regarded as Pakistan’s foremost modern landscape painter and one of the most influential art educators. Born in Shimla in 1929, he began his career as an art teacher at Aitchison College, Lahore (1949 - 52). In 1952, he left for England to study fine art at the Slade School of Art, University College London, where in his own words, the painter William Coldstream became the greatest influence on his art and outlook. Returning to Lahore in 1955, Iqbal was appointed lecturer at the Department of Fine Arts, University of the Punjab, Lahore, and was asked to initiate art classes for male students—an important step in broadening...