Mother and Daughter

In the 1950s McWilliam explored the expressive nuances of both modelled and assembled materials, pressing objets trouvés into the clay and then casting them out, achieving what he described as a 'surface that rhymed with but was not the Celtic Thing' (see T.P. Flanagan, F.E. McWilliam, Ulster Museum exhibition catalogue, Belfast, 1981, p. 24).

A study for Mother and Daughter, 1956 is illustrated in R. Penrose, McWilliam, London, 1964, no. 41.