William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA

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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.

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