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Boston College Collection of Eric Gill Materials 1896-1983 (Bulk 1916-1940) MS.1986.139 Boston College Collection of Eric Gill Materials 1896-1983 (bulk 1916-1940) MS.1986.139 http://hdl.handle.net/2345/7119 Archives and Manuscripts Department John J. Burns Library Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467 617-552-3282 [email protected] http://www.bc.edu/burns Table of Contents Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3 Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................4 Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Biographical note...........................................................................................................................................5 Scope and Contents note............................................................................................................................... 7 Arrangement note...........................................................................................................................................7 Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 8 Series I: Original artwork.......................................................................................................................8 Series II: Art reproductions..................................................................................................................18 Series III: Publications..........................................................................................................................22 Series IV: Correspondence................................................................................................................... 26 Series V: Ephemera.............................................................................................................................. 27 Boston College Collection of Eric Gill Materials MS.1986.139 - Page 2 - Summary Information Library Unit Archives and Manuscripts Department Creator Gill, Eric, 1882-1940 Title Boston College collection of Eric Gill materials Date [bulk] Bulk, 1916-1940 Date [inclusive] 1896-1983 Extent 28.0 Linear feet (21 boxes and 7 oversize objects) Language English Abstract The Eric Gill collection includes sketches, drawings, and engravings by Gill, as well as publications, ephemera, and some correspondence. There are also several woodcut printing blocks, a stone tablet and a plaster block, and rubbings of stone carvings. Preferred Citation note Identification of item, Box number, Folder number, Boston College Collection of Eric Gill Materials, MS.1986.139, John J. Burns Library, Boston College. Boston College Collection of Eric Gill Materials MS.1986.139 - Page 3 - Administrative Information Publication Information Processed by Jillaire McMillan, August 2000. This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit. Last Update 2015. New accessions incorporated and description revised by Rowena Clarke and Sarah Nitenson. Restrictions on access Collection is open for research. Restrictions on use These materials are made available for use in research, teaching and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. The original authors may retain copyright to the materials. Provenance Because the current accessioning system was not used until January 1986, it is not possible to know exactly the dates of acquisition of materials received before that time. Related Materials Separated Materials note Books related to this collection are cataloged separately, and may be found by searching for the local collection name Gill in the library catalog. Boston College Collection of Eric Gill Materials MS.1986.139 - Page 4 - Biographical note Eric Gill was born in Brighton, Sussex on February 22, 1882. His father, the Reverend Arthur Tidman Gill, had recently left the congregational church to join Calvinist Methodist Connexion Church as a minister. Gill’s mother, (Cicely) Rose King, had been a professional light opera singer before her marriage. The family moved to Chichester in 1897, by which time Gill’s father had joined the Anglican Church. Gill enrolled at the Chichester Technical and Art School, where he won a prize for technical drawing and met his future wife, Ethel Hester Moore. In 1900, Gill moved to London to train as an architect but found the profession staid and the experience frustrating. After discovering a passion for calligraphy during evening classes at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, Gill embarked on a career in letter cutting and monumental masonry. He married Ethel in 1904. Gill became quite well-known in London art circles, especially among the more radical and politically-minded groups such as The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and The Art Worker’s Guild. He was an active member of the Fabian Society. However, he remained an outsider figure in these groups and in 1907 he and his family relocated to the countryside, settling in the village of Ditchling, Sussex. During his early years at Ditchling, Gill began to work regularly with stone as a sculptor and became involved with the group of artists associated with Jacob Epstein and Augustus John. In January 1911 Gill had his first solo exhibition of stone carvings at the Chenil Gallery in Chelsea, which was well received and led to a number of commissions. However, Gill was dissatisfied with his success, seeing it as a corruption of his artistic ideals. After converting to Roman Catholicism, Gill moved his family to Ditchling Common, where he aimed to live self-sufficiently on the farmland attached to his new home. Gill received a number of major commissions, one of which was for the stone Stations of the Cross at Westminster Cathedral. Gill, along with his apprentice, Desmond Chute, became lay members of the Dominican Order and Gill’s increasing fame helped to attract similarly-minded Catholics to Ditchling Common, where a Catholic craft community developed. Gill left Ditchling with his family suddenly, and rather acrimoniously, after a dispute over guild finances and his resentment of the relationship between his daughter Betty and David Pepler, the son of his friend Hilary Pepler. From 1924 to 1928, the Gills lived in Capel-y-ffin in the Welsh Black Mountains. It was during this period that Gill designed the typefaces for which he is most remembered: Perpetua, Gill Sans Serif, and Solus. Gill Sans Serif, in particular, had an enormous impact on the development of modern typography. In 1928, the Gills moved to Piggots, five miles from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. There Gill took on a number of large-scale sculptural jobs, including a series of carvings produced for Broadcasting House, the BBC’s headquarters in London. In the 1930s Gill produced a steady stream of books, including: Art and a Changing Civilization (1934), Money and Morals (1934), Work and Leisure (1935), The Necessity of Belief (1936), and Work and Property (1937). Gill’s art had always been controversial, and his representations of sex and the interplay of religion and sexuality caused some outcry. His sculpture of Shakespeare’s Prospero and Ariel at Broadcasting House elicited multiple complaints from the public. Gill’s writing hinted at some of his Boston College Collection of Eric Gill Materials MS.1986.139 - Page 5 - more outré philosophies, but the revelation in the 1980s of his complicated, adulterous, and incestuous relationships instigated a critical reassessment of Gill’s life and work. Gill died in Uxbridge on November 17, 1940, from lung cancer after suffering years of declining health. His funeral Mass was held in Piggots before his burial in Speen. Gill’s final works were his autobiography, completed in the summer of 1940, and his unfinished stone altarpiece for Westminster Cathedral, which was finally set in place in 1947. Brady, Elizabeth A. Eric Gill: Twentieth Century Book Designer. New York: The Scarecrow Press, 1962. "Eric Gill." Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Accessed 30 July 2014. http://www.britannica.com/ EBchecked/topic/233695/Eric-Gill. MacCarthy, Fiona. Eric Gill: A Lover’s Quest for Art and God. New York: Dutton, 1989. MacCarthy, Fiona. “Gill (Arthur), Eric Rownton,(1822 – 1940)” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 -. Accessed October 3, 2014. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33403 Boston College Collection of Eric Gill Materials MS.1986.139 - Page 6 - Scope and Contents note The Eric Gill collection consists of original artwork, art reproductions, publications, correspondence, and ephemera. The majority of material relates to Gill's career as a letter-cutter and artist, and the bulk of the collection is artwork. Included are engravings, lettering designs, pencil sketches, photographs, prints, rubbings of headstones and other carvings, sculptures, a stone tablet, and woodcut printing blocks. Publications include works by and about Gill, exhibit announcements and catalogs, and items from presses with which Gill was associated. Correspondence between Gill, his family, and his friends
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