COLLECTION FEATURE: CUT LETTERING

COLLECTION FEATURE: CUT LETTERING

The Crafts Study Centre houses one of the biggest and most comprehensive collections of twentieth century British calligraphy and lettering in the UK. We have work by about seventy calligraphers, but the collections are strongest in the work of the first two generations of calligraphers who emerged from the revival led by Edward Johnston in the early-twentieth century; and two of the largest bodies of work are those by Johnston himself and his pupil Irene Wellington. The collections expanded significantly in 2018 with the acquisition of the collections of the Edward Johnston Foundation, which contains about 10,000 items relating to the work of Johnston’s students, in particular Daisy Alcock, William Gardiner, Joan Pilsbury, Michael Renton and John Woodcock. This is going to form the basis of a very large cataloguing project in the future.

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