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ANTIQUE #SA837554
geoffrey robert russell 1902 1945portrait of arthur eric rowton gill 18821940 in his studio - CATEGORY: ANTIQUE ART - DATED 1940
 

Geoffrey Robert Russell, 1902 - 1945 portrait Of Arthur Eric Rowton Gill 1882-1940 In His Studio

£800    $1,013    €965
Geoffrey Robert Russell, 1902 - 1945
 
Portrait of Arthur Eric Rowton Gill 1882-1940 in his studio
 
Signed/Inscribed:
 
''Robert Russell''
 
oil on canvas
 
48 x 46 cm. (19 x 18 in.)
 
Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton (1882–1940), artist, craftsman, and social critic, was born at 32 Hamilton Road, Brighton, Sussex, on 22 February 1882, the eldest son and second of the thirteen children of the Revd Arthur Tidman Gill (1848–1933), minister of the Countess of Huntingdon''s Connexion, a Calvinist Methodist church, and his wife, (Cicely) Rose King (d. 1929), formerly a professional singer of light opera under the name Rose le Roi. His younger brother, Leslie MacDonald [Max] Gill became a noted decorative cartographer. Arthur Tidman Gill, who came from a long line of Congregational missionaries and had been born in the South Seas, had himself been a Congregational minister, but had recently left the church of his forebears, after doctrinal disagreements, to join the connexion. Eric Gill was brought up in an atmosphere of religious controversy and holy poverty that helped shape his own valiant, if not totally successful, ambition ''to make a cell of good living in the chaos of our world'' (Gill, Autobiography, 282).
 
Gill became the greatest artist–craftsman of the twentieth century: a letter-cutter and type designer of genius, whose Gill Sans and Perpetua typefaces have continued in world-wide use for many decades; a sculptor whose powerful work initiated a return to the directness of hand carving; a draughtsman and wood-engraver of consummate subtlety and skill. In any one of these crafts Gill would be considered a prime practitioner. He was also a copious essayist and a vociferous polemicist. The energy and spread of his activity, underpinned by a fervent belief in the values of making by hand as a bastion against the dehumanizing forces of industrialization, make his achievement comparable with that of William Morris in the century before.
 
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Antique #SA837554, shown on this page, originates from 1940. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was made:
1940
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