Eric Gill: Iconographer Hands On Printing Demonstration November 11, 2009

Thacher Gallery at USF presents “Eric Gill Iconographer: Engravings from the Albert Sperisen Collection.” View the exhibit, enjoy the reception and participate in printing your own commemorative broadside of one of Eric Gill's prints!

Eric Gill (1882-1940), best known for his typography and the widely-used fonts that bear his name, was a prolific English writer and artist whose daring aesthetic combined sensuality and spirituality with a keen sense of the line. A controversial and conflicted figure, Gill was deeply religious and influenced by medieval Catholicism, yet crossed almost every imaginable boundary in his private life. The spiritual and erotic (even bawdy) can be seen intermixed throughout his work, and often simultaneously, as in his depictions of Eve’s Seduction and the Immaculate Conception. The engravings in “Eric Gill Iconographer” embody these tensions while revealing the elegant boldness that defines the late Arts and Crafts aesthetic.

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