Eric Gill
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' describes Gill as "the greatest artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a letter-cutter and type designer of genius", he is also a figure of considerable controversy following the revelations of his sexual abuse of two of his daughters and of his pet dog.Gill was born in Brighton and grew up in Chichester, where he attended the local college before moving to London. There he became an apprentice with a firm of ecclesiastical architects and took evening classes in stone masonry and calligraphy. Gill abandoned his architectural training and set up a business cutting memorial inscriptions for buildings and headstones. He also began designing chapter headings and title pages for books.
As a young man, Gill was a member of the Fabian Society, but later resigned. Initially identifying with the Arts and Crafts Movement, by 1907 he was lecturing and campaigning against the movement's perceived failings. He became a Roman Catholic in 1913 and remained so for the rest of his life. Gill established a succession of craft communities, each with a chapel at its centre and with an emphasis on manual labour as opposed to more modern industrial methods. The first of these communities was at Ditchling in Sussex, where Gill established the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic for Catholic craftsmen. Many members of the Guild, including Gill, were also members of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, a lay division of the Dominican Order. At Ditchling, Gill and his assistants created several notable war memorials including those at Chirk in north Wales and at Trumpington near Cambridge, along with numerous works on religious subjects.
In 1924, the Gill family left Ditchling and moved to an isolated, disused monastery at Capel-y-ffin in the Black Mountains of Wales. The isolation of Capel-y-ffin suited Gill's wish to distance himself from what he regarded as an increasingly secular and industrialised society, and his time there proved to be among the most productive of his artistic career. At Capel, Gill made the sculptures ''The Sleeping Christ'' (1925), ''Deposition'' (1925), and ''Mankind'' (1927). He created engravings for a series of books published by the Golden Cockerel Press considered among the finest of their kind, and it was at Capel that he designed the typefaces Perpetua, Gill Sans, and Solus. After four years at Capel, Gill and his family moved into a quadrangle of properties at Speen in Buckinghamshire. From there, in the last decade of his life, Gill became an architectural sculptor of some fame, creating large, high profile works for central London buildings, including both the headquarters of the BBC and the forerunner of London Underground. His mammoth frieze ''The Creation of Man'' was the British Government's gift to the new League of Nations building in Geneva. Despite failing health Gill was active as a sculptor until the last weeks of his life, leaving several works to be completed by his assistants after his death.
Gill was a prolific writer on religious and social matters, with some 300 printed works including books and pamphlets to his name. He frequently courted controversy with his opposition to industrialisation, modern commerce, and the use of machinery in both the home and the workplace. In the years preceding World War II, he embraced pacifism and left-wing causes. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Gill, Eric, 1882-1940Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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3by Gill, Eric, 1882-1940Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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4by Gill, Eric, 1882-1940Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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6Created 1919Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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7by Pepler, H. D. C. (Hilary Douglas Clarke), 1878-1951Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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8Created 1927Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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9Created 1923Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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10by McNabb, Vincent, 1868-1943Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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11Created 1925Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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12Created 1936Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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13by Farrell, Walter, 1902-1951Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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14by McNabb, Vincent, 1868-1943Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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15by Marshall, DonaldOther Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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16Created 1934Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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17by Jones, David, 1895-1974Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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18Created 1923Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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19by Shewring, WalterOther Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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20Created 1927Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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21Created 1925Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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22by Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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23Created 1940Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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24by Woellwarth, Mary EliseOther Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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25by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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26Created 1921Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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27Created 1916Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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28Created 1949Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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29Created 1931Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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30Created 1967Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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31Created 1929Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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32by Smith, JudithOther Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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33by Whale, J. H.Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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34Created 1927Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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35Created 1924Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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36by Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint, 1593-1649Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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37by Brébeuf, Jean de, 1593-1649Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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38by Clêrissac, Humbert, 1864-1914Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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39by Thureau-Dangin, Paul, 1837-1913Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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40by Whale, J. H.Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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41Created 1953Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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42Created 1957Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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43Created 1939Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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44by Woellwarth, Mary EliseOther Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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45Created 1923Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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46by Woellwarth, Mary EliseOther Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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47Created 1916Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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48Created 1947Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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49Created 1929Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
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50by Pepler, H. D. C. (Hilary Douglas Clarke), 1878-1951Other Authors: “...Gill, Eric, 1882-1940...”
Created 1926
Location: Marian Library, University of Dayton
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