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William McCance
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Born in 1894 in Britain at Cambuslang, Scotland, William McCance was the seventh of eight children. A conscientious objector in World War I, McCance was imprisoned. McCance"s paintings in the 1920s were unusual in that he was one of the few Scottish artists who embraced the cubist, abstract and machine-inspired arts movements that were to be spread across Europe following the First World War.
In the 1930s McCance took up the post as the second Controller of the famous Gregynog Press, Wales, founded in 1922, after which he was to teach book design at the University of Reading.
William McCance died in 1970. A collection of his paintings is held in the National Galleries of Scotland and Dundee Art Gallery, and in 1975 a retrospective exhibition of his work was shown at Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
