Parker, Agnes Miller (1895–1980)
Parker, Agnes Miller (1895–1980)
Scottish artist. Born Mar 25, 1895, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland; died 1980, on Island of Arran, Scotland; attended Glasgow School of Art; m. William McCance (sculptor, typographer).
Wood engraver, printmaker and illustrator, taught at Glasgow School for 2 years and also in London (1920s); worked with husband and former tutors, Gertrude Hermes and Blair Hughes-Stanton, at Gregynog Press, where she produced one of the finest pieces in the history of British book design, Fables of Aesop (1931); created most praised works after leaving Gregynog, illustrating Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and 2 commercially successful books for H.E. Bates, Through the Woods (1936) and Down the River (1937); illustrated many works for Limited Edition Club in New York; later retired to Island of Arran, becoming increasingly reclusive.
See also Ian Rogerson and John Dreyfus, Agnes Miller Parker, Wood-Engraver and Book Illustrator, 1895–1980 (Fleece, 1990).