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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William McCance

William McCance