Posted on 22 February 2010, 2:05 am, by Typocurious, under
biographies.
Friends, relations, colleagues and former pupils of Eric Gill were among the participants in two centenary events held last week.
After hearing the homage paid to Eric Gill’s art and way of life at last week’s two centenary events, it came as a shock to read what some of his detractors had to say about him, as recorded [...]
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was born in Brighton in 1882 and apprenticed as an architect of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1900. He married Ethel Mary Moore in 1904 and, three years later, joined a community of artist craftsmen in Ditchling, Sussex, where he did some printing and illustration. He left Ditchling in 1924 and lived at [...]