Eric Gill Archive 1887-2003 (bulk 1905-1940)

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Eric Gill Archive 1887-2003 (bulk 1905-1940)

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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.

76.2 linear feet, 14 flat files, 9 tubes, 8 items

eng,

University of California, Los Angeles. Library. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

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William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA

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Biography 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, whic...