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Arthur Eric Rowton Gill ARA RDI (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 ...
Eve, a modern wood engraving by Eric Gill, a founder member of the Society, 1929. The Society of Wood Engravers (SWE) is a UK-based artists’ exhibiting society formed in 1920, one of its founder-members being Eric Gill. Membership is restricted to artists who use wood engraving, as distinct from the separate discipline of woodcut.
An artwork by Eric Gill for the Golden Cockerel's 1931 edition of the Gospels. [3] The Golden Cockerel typeface, designed for the press by Gill. Robert Gibbings was working on wood engravings for The Lives of Gallant Ladies at the time the press was put up for sale, and, to secure publication of this work, he sought a loan from a friend, Hubert Pike, a director of Bentley Motors, to buy the ...
Perpetua is a serif typeface that was designed by the English sculptor and stonemason Eric Gill for the British Monotype Corporation.Perpetua was commissioned at the request of Stanley Morison, an influential historian of printing and adviser to Monotype around 1925, when Gill's reputation as a leading artist-craftsman was high. [1]
In 1923 the family joined Eric Gill at Ditchling, and moved with him to Capel-y-ffin in 1924. The climate proved too harsh for Hagreen and he moved to Lourdes with his family, where he stayed until 1932.
Wood engraving was used to great effect by 19th-century artists such as Edward Calvert, and its heyday lasted until the early and mid-20th century when remarkable achievements were made by Eric Gill, Eric Ravilious, Tirzah Garwood and others.
The Soul and the Bridegroom, from Engravings by Eric Gill (1929). His first book published was a collection of engravings by Eric Gill, [6] who later drew the first version of what would become Gill Sans for him for use on signs and notices for the shop.
The Devil's Devices or, Control versus Service, with wood engravings by Eric Gill (1915) Justice and the Child (1915) Three Poems (St. Dominic's Press, 1918) Nisi Dominus (1919) Concerning Dragons, with wood engravings by Eric Gill (St. Dominic's Press, 1929) The Law the Lawyers Know About (Saint Dominic's Press, 1923)