Agnes Miller Parker (1895 - 1980) was a Scottish engraver and illustrator. Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
She was born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland and studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1911 to 1917 and joined the staff for a short period. Irvine ( Gaelic: Irbhinn) is a coastal New town in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Glasgow School of Art is one of four independent art schools in Scotland, situated in the Garnethill area of Glasgow. Parker married painter William McCance in 1918 and lived in England most of her life, returning to Glasgow in 1955. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Halsby and Harris, in The Dictionary of Scottish Painters (1990) suggest that her early paintings, as well as those of her husband, reflect the short-lived group of artists known as Vorticists, active in London in the 1920s. Vorticism was a short lived British Art movement of the early 20th century The main body of her work consists of wood engravings for book illustrations. Halsby and Harris characterize these as demonstrating fine draughtsmanship and skilful use of black and white design. She illustrated The Fables of Aesop (1931), Through the Woods by H. E. Bates (1936), titles for the Limited Editions Club of New York and editions of the works of Shakespeare and Thomas Hardy. Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος — Aisōpos) (620-560 BC) known only for the genre of Fables Herbert Ernest Bates, CBE, ( May 16 1905 - January 29 1974) better known as H William Shakespeare ( baptised Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928 was an English novelist Short story writer and poet of the naturalist movement though he saw She lived at Lamlash on Arran and died at Greenock. Lamlash is the largest village by population on the Isle of Arran, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. Arran ( also known as Aran, Ardhan (in Parthian) Al-Ran (in Arabic) including the highland and lowland Karabakh) Greenock ( Gaelic Grianaig g̊ɾʲiənɛg̊ʲ is a large town and former Burgh of barony in the Inverclyde Council area of western
References
- Halsby, Julian, and Harris, Paul, The Dictionary of Scottish Painters, 1600-1960, Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1990.
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