About this artwork
William McCance moved to London in 1919 or 1920 with his wife, Agnes Miller Parker. This portrait of his wife is rendered in the vorticist style, with angular forms accentuated by shading in black chalk. McCance was one of very few Scottish artists to follow the Vorticism path. Miller Parker was herself an artist and had, like McCance, trained at Glasgow School of Art. She went on to become a well-known wood engraver and book illustrator.
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artist:William McCanceScottish (1894 - 1970)
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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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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...
