Agnes Miller Parker, 1895 - 1980. Artist
About this artwork
This portrait of Miller Parker is drawn in a modernist, sculptural style. McCance has used a strong outline to define her form, while broad areas of graduated shading suggest the contours of her body. McCance may have been influenced by the vorticist artist Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), whose drawings similarly often employ a bold line and tonal shading to create three-dimensional volume. Vorticism was a radical English art movement, influenced by Cubism and characterised by a hard-edged, angular style and machine-like imagery.
Updated February 2024
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artist:William McCance (1894 - 1970) Scottish
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title:Agnes Miller Parker, 1895 - 1980. Artist
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date created:Dated 1925
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materials:Black crayon on paper
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measurements:38.00 x 50.80 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1988
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accession number:GMA 3433
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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...