McCance was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1911-1915. In 1918, he married fellow Boswell artist Agnes-Miller Parker, one of the UK’s leading wood-engraving artists in her own right. Following a brief period of incarceration as a conscientious objector during World War I, the early 1920’s saw the artist develop an artistic style inspired by the artist Wyndham-Lewis and the Vorticist movement.
McCance was one of very few Scottish artists to embrace the Cubist, Abstract and machine-age movements sweeping the Continent following the resolution of the First World War. From 1930-1933 he also worked as controller of the celebrated Gregynog Press, where leading British Printmakers and typographers produced limited edition prints.
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