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Finding Aid for the Eric Gill Archive, 1887-2003
(bulk 1905-1940)
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Gill
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Description
This collection of materials accumulated by the
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library documents the personal and artistic
development and activities of Eric Gill, a twentieth-century English
stone-cutter, sculptor, artist, author, typographer/type designer,
printer, book illustrator; and champion of social reforms. The collection
includes manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, legal and financial
documents, scrapbooks, clippings, periodicals, photographs, Gill's books
and library, as well as several printing items and a substantial amount of
art.
Background
Son of a non-conformist minister, one of twelve children, Eric Gill was
born in Brighton in 1882 and brought up in Chichester, where he attended
art school and learned the rudiments of drawing. At the age of eighteen he
went to London to work in an architect's office, a prosperous firm
specializing in church buildings. Here he acquired more of a draftsman's
skills, although not entirely in sympathy with modern building methods,
which Gill believed to favor the designer and contractor at the expense of
the craftsman.
Extent
76.2 linear feet, 14 flat files, 9 tubes,
8 items
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library as the
owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Availability
Collection is open for research.