William McCance
Portrait of Agnes Miller Parker
About this artwork
McCance drew this portrait of his wife, Agnes Miller Parker, the year they got married. They met whilst studying at Glasgow School of Art. Miller Parker went on to become a well-known wood-engraver and book-illustrator. It is a delicate, detailed portrait far different from McCance’s work which changed dramatically in the early 1920s to a highly stylised form of painting, reflecting the influence of Cubism and Surrealism.
Updated before 2020
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artist:William McCance (1894 - 1970) Scottish
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title:Portrait of Agnes Miller Parker
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date created:1918
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materials:Pencil on paper
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measurements:34.00 x 24.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by Dr Margaret McCance 2011
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accession number:GMA 5159
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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...
