English artist and lettercarver. Known by the name "Max", he was a brother of Eric Gill, He was born in Brighton and educated at Chichester School of Art and the Central School of Art. He began his career as an architect but also worked as an artist, designer and illustrator, exhibiting designs at the Royal Academy between 1907 and 1923. In the architectural area he completed interior decoration for the House of Commons, Lincoln Cathedral and Borough Polytechnic, for which he collaborated with Roger Fry. He was a member of the War Graves Commission Committee, for whom he designed a style of lettering which was used as standard lettering on all the headstones of the dead of the British Army in the 1914-1919 War.
English artist and lettercarver. Known by the name "Max", he was a brother of Eric Gill, He was born in Brighton and educated at Chichester School of Art and the Central School of Art. He began his career as an architect but also worked as an artist, designer and illustrator, exhibiting designs at the Royal Academy between 1907 and 1923. In the architectural area he completed interior decoration for the House of Commons, Lincoln Cathedral and Borough Polytechnic, for which he collaborated with Roger Fry. He was a member of the War Graves Commission Committee, for whom he designed a style of lettering which was used as standard lettering on all the headstones of the dead of the British Army in the 1914-1919 War.
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