ERIC GILL A.R.A. 1882–1940
The Piscina from the Chapel of St Joseph and St Dominic Ditchling
ERIC GILL A.R.A. 1882–1940
The Piscina from the Chapel of St Joseph and St Dominic Ditchling
1921
Stock Number: 14591/MB
Height
50.20cm
[19.76 inches]
Width 22.80cm [8.98 inches]
Depth 30.50cm [12.01 inches]
Width 22.80cm [8.98 inches]
Depth 30.50cm [12.01 inches]
Price on application
Hornton Stone
Date 1921
PROVENANCE
Removed from the Chapel on demolition circa 1989
Purchased by the Gallerist Gillian Jason
LITERATURE
Eric Gill Diary Feb 24th 1921
"Work on Piscina and Shelf for the Chapel all day” being one of numerous entries relating to his working on the Chapel
Exhibition literature “Eric Gill and the Guild of St Joseph and St. Dominic”.
Hove Museum and Art Gallery 25th Nov 1990 – 17th Feb 1991
(1921) “work on the Chapel and on Gills Workshop continued through the winter months… Much of the rest of the stone cutting fell to Gill himself, and his diary shows him racing to keep pace with the builder, cutting stone shelves, the Piscina, then the capitals day by day as the building neared completion.
EXHIBITION
Gillian Jason Gallery, The Lost Idyll: Sculpture and Carving by Members of the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic at Ditchling Sussex, 1913 – 1924 Sept – Oct 1989
Fine Art Society, Carving in Britain from 1910 to Now
Nov 2012 – Jan 2013
Shelf dimensions
Height: 6.3 cm
Width: 34.3 cm
Depth: 27.0 cm
Date 1921
PROVENANCE
Removed from the Chapel on demolition circa 1989
Purchased by the Gallerist Gillian Jason
LITERATURE
Eric Gill Diary Feb 24th 1921
"Work on Piscina and Shelf for the Chapel all day” being one of numerous entries relating to his working on the Chapel
Exhibition literature “Eric Gill and the Guild of St Joseph and St. Dominic”.
Hove Museum and Art Gallery 25th Nov 1990 – 17th Feb 1991
(1921) “work on the Chapel and on Gills Workshop continued through the winter months… Much of the rest of the stone cutting fell to Gill himself, and his diary shows him racing to keep pace with the builder, cutting stone shelves, the Piscina, then the capitals day by day as the building neared completion.
EXHIBITION
Gillian Jason Gallery, The Lost Idyll: Sculpture and Carving by Members of the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic at Ditchling Sussex, 1913 – 1924 Sept – Oct 1989
Fine Art Society, Carving in Britain from 1910 to Now
Nov 2012 – Jan 2013
Shelf dimensions
Height: 6.3 cm
Width: 34.3 cm
Depth: 27.0 cm
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