The artists

Eric Gill

Born: Brighton 1882
Died: Harefield, London 1940

Studied: Chichester Technical and Art School 1897.

Selected commissions: Stations of the Cross, Westminster Cathedral, London 1913; Leeds University War Memorial 1922–3; London Underground Railway (London Transport), Broadway, London 1928–9; BBC, Broadcasting House, London 1929–31; St Peter Apostle, Gorleston, Norfolk 1939.

Selected collections: Tate Gallery, London; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery; Ditchling Museum, Sussex; Hove Museum and Art Gallery; Leeds University Collection; Manchester City Art Gallery, Methodist Collection of Modern Art.