About this artwork
This drawing relates to a painting of the same name, Heavy Structures in a Landscape Setting (1922). During the 1920s William McCance lived in London. The semi-abstract style shows the influence of the London avant-garde scene on McCance. It is comparable with works by Wyndham Lewis and William Roberts, and indeed, the artist had a close connection with Roberts, who rented a room in McCance’s flat. The forms in the work have an ominous feel: the structures in the foreground suggesting a military gun battery.
Updated before 2020
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artist:William McCance (1894 - 1970) Scottish
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title:Heavy Structures in a Landscape Setting
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date created:About 1922
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materials:Pen and ink and ink wash on paper
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measurements:18.00 x 22.90 cm (irregular)
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1988
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accession number:GMA 3432
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glossary:
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...