Festive Occasion
About this artwork
Festive Occasion is painted on what was probably a dry food container, perhaps originally made for tea or biscuits. It was begun as a depiction of the Last Supper, but the apparently drunken nature of the scene led McCance to retitle it. Festive Occasion is written in pencil inside the container. There are fourteen figures (plus a waiter delivering drinks in the background), whereas a Last Supper involves twelve disciples and Christ.
Updated before 2020
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artist:William McCance (1894 - 1970) Scottish
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title:Festive Occasion
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date created:1924
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materials:Oil on cylindrical wooden container with metal fastenings
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measurements:24.00 cm (height); 21.40 cm (diameter)
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 2013
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accession number:GMA 5381
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gallery:
William McCance
William McCance
McCance was born in a suburb of Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1911-5. In 1918 he married a fellow student, Agnes Miller Parker (one of Britain's leading wood-engravers), and they moved to London two years later. In the early 1920s McCance developed a machine-inspired, near...