Agnes Miller Parker

Agnes Miller Parker (1895 - 1980) was a Scottish engraver and illustrator.

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. Parker married painter William McCance in 1918 and lived in England most of her life, returning to Glasgow in 1955. 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. 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. She lived at Lamlash on Arran and died at Greenock.

References

*Halsby, Julian, and Harris, Paul, "The Dictionary of Scottish Painters, 1600-1960", Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1990.