The Harry and Margery Boswell Art Collection: Artworks
- John Bellany, Woman of the North Sea.
- Elizabeth Blackadder, Untitled.
- John Byrne, Juggling Harlequin.Steven Campbell, Portrait of Tom Normand.
- Calum Colvin, Mute Swan.
- Ken Currie, Age of Uncertainty.
- Ken Currie, Reprisal.
- Alan Davie, Zurich Improvisations XII.
- Paul Furneaux, Black Madonna.
- John Houston, Untitled.
- Ian Howard, Drago.
- Callum Innes, XI
- Elspeth Lamb, The Gift.
- Patricia Macdonald, Braided river and ancient pines, Glen Feshie, Cairngorms.
- Patricia Macdonald, Lochan Uaine (The Green Lochan) below the Angel's Peak of Carn an t-Sabhail, Cairngorms.
- Will Maclean, Bird Altar.
- Will Maclean, The Tanera Suite.
- William McCance, Machine Moloch or Machine Gods.
- William McCance, The Engineer, His Wife and Family.
- William McCance, Tree Trunk Composition.
- June Redfern, Early Morning Mist.
- Elaine Shemilt, Image in a Bell Jar.
- Alison Watt, Untitled.
- Adrian Wiszniewski, For Max.
William McCance (1894-1970)
Moloch of the Machine (Machine Gods) or Machine Moloch, 1928
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William McCance was born in Cambuslang near Glasgow. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and spent most of the First World War imprisoned as a conscientious objector. In the early 1920s he carried out early abstract works, influenced by Wyndham Lewis. He moved to England in the late 1920s but maintained strong links to Scottish contemporary culture. His first solo exhibition was at Reading Art Gallery in 1960 and he had a major retrospective shown at Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh in 1975.
The asymmetrical constructions of man-made shapes illustrate McCance's inventiveness of form.
