30th Sep, 2018 13:00
The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction
BLACK MOON, A MONOTYPE BY WILLIAM MCCANCE
* WILLIAM MCCANCE (SCOTTISH 1894 - 1970),
BLACK MOON
monotype with mixed media, signed and titled in the plate
14cm x 6cm
Mounted, framed and under glass
Exhibited: Reading Museum & Art Gallery, 1960. No 149; and McKechnie Institute, Girvan 1972. No 147.
Note: 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 abstract style, much indebted to the work of Wyndham Lewis and the Vorticists. He was one of very few Scottish artists to follow such a path. From 1930 to 1933 he worked as controller of the celebrated Gregynog Press in Wales, where leading British printmakers and typographers produced highly prized, limited-edition books.
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