About this artwork
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artist:William McCance (1894 - 1970) Scottish
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title:The Engineer, his Wife and Family
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date created:Dated 1925
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materials:Linocut (green ink over purple ink) on paper
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measurements:11.30 x 7.70 cm (paper and image size)
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1988
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accession number:GMA 3438
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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...