Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5

"Leslie MacDonald ""Max"" Gill"
Australia Original Vintage Propaganda Poster post WW2 MacDonald Max Gill

c.1950

About the Item

To see our other original vintage travel and propaganda posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the poster you want. Macdonald (Max) Gill (1884-1947) Australia: Her Natural and Industrial Resources (1950) His Majesty’s Stationary Office, SO Code NO. 70-538-5-2 Lithographic poster 51 x 76cm (20 x 30 inches) Born in Brighton, Max Gill was the second son in a family of thirteen children; his elder brother was Eric Gill, the typographer and sculptor. Both Gills exhibited significant talent at a young age. Max Gill’s first map was made for a school map-drawing project following which he entered maps into competitions in boys’ magazines. In 1903 he moved to London as assistant to the ecclesiastical architects Sir Charles Nicholson and Hubert Corlette. By 1908 he had started his own architectural practice, but in 1909 Sir Edwin Lutyens commissioned Gill to paint a “wind dial” map for Nashdom, a large house in Buckinghamshire. The wind dial was set over the fireplace and attached to a weather vane on the roof, allowing the occupant to know the direction of the wind from the comfort of the house. He produced seven further wind dials including for Lutyens’s Lindisfarne Castle and for the Allhusen Room at Trinity College, Cambridge. Although he continued to practice as an architect, Frank Pick commissioned him to create seven pictorial maps for the Underground, the first being the famous 1913 ‘Wonderground Map of London Town.’ In 1917 he joined the Imperial War Graves Commission’s headstone design committee, designing the typeface and regimental badges. Gill’s memorials for the fallen in the First World War include for Balliol and Worcester Colleges and Christ Church in Oxford. During the 1920s and 30s Gill undertook many commercial commissions for advertising materials. The Empire Marketing Board and Shell-Mex as well as further maps for the Underground. He designed in 1922 the first diagrammatic map of the Underground which provided the foundation for Beck’s more famous map. By the 1930s his major works were murals. Those of the Arctic and Antarctic on the ceilings of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge are beautiful, but the most impressive is the map of the North Atlantic in the first-class dining room of the Queen Mary (maiden voyage: 1936, now moored at Long Beach, California). During the Second World War he created a series of propaganda posters for the Ministry of Information; this map is from that series.
More From This SellerView All
You May Also Like
  • 'Tree Root' . Hand colored lithogarph circa 1959.
    By Jack Coutu
    Located in Frome, Somerset
    A fine Raymond John 'Jack' Coutu (1924-2017) ARE, ARCA. color lithograph/ engraving. 'Tree Root'. 6th of a 50 handmade edition by the artist.. circa 1959. Well listed Modern Artist. Signed and presented in the original framing. Raymond John "Jack" Coutu ARE ARCA (13 September 1924 – 17 May 2017) was an English printmaker, sculptor, etcher, engraver, carver, watercolourist and teacher. He was influenced by Oriental art.Jack Coutu was born Raymond John Coutu at Farnham, Surrey, England, and was educated at Farnham Grammar School.[ On leaving school in 1940, he worked at Abbott of Farnham, a coachbuilding company in Farnham, where his father Bert Coutu was also employed painting coats of arms and heraldic shields. In 1942, at the age of 18 during World War II, he joined the Royal Corps of Signals, where after training he served in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India, and Singapore. At the end of WWII, he was in Kure, Japan, in the Hiroshima Prefecture. From 1947 to 1951, Coutu studied at the Farnham School of Art, followed by the Royal College of Art in London from 1951 to 1954 and the Central School of Art from 1951 to 1955. At the Central School of Art, Merlin Evans was an influence on Coutu's printmaking. Coutu taught printmaking at the Central School of Art from 1957 to 1965 and then at the West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham from 1965 to 1985. In 1968, he started to carve netsuke (as practised in Japan) and he joined the Netsuke Kenkyukai Society, based in the United StatesHe is also a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers and the Printmakers Council. Jack Coutu has exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, netsuke conventions, jointly with Michael Rothenstein...
    Category

    1950s Modern Landscape Prints

    Materials

    Lithograph

  • Kirche von Bozen
    By (after) Egon Schiele
    Located in Roma, IT
    This lithograph from the portfolio "Egon Schiele" is a reproduction of "Kirche von Bozen", an original artwork realized by Egon Schiele in 1907. The portfolio, that includes 10 litho...
    Category

    Early 1900s Modern Landscape Prints

    Materials

    Lithograph

  • Royal Palace in Genoa - Lithograph - 19th Century
    Located in Roma, IT
    Royal Palace in Genoa is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century. The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes. Very good condition.
    Category

    19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

    Materials

    Lithograph

  • Chicago - Lithograph on Paper from "Brockhaus Encyclopedia - 1905
    Located in Roma, IT
    Chicago is an interesting black and white lithograph on paper, realized in 1905 by an anonymous artist, and published by Brockhaus Encyclopedia (Brockhaus Enzyklopädie), an encyclopedia in German among the most renowned in the world. Published in Mannheim by the publisher Bibliographisches Institut & F. A. Brockhaus AG, this encyclopedia appeared in an embryonic form in the 18th century. At the time it was a matter of offering a modern instrument of culture and conversation (Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten) to the educated classes. The real encyclopedia would soon be born from the project at the beginning of the 19th century. This original print is a toponomastic map of the Chicago city...
    Category

    Early 1900s Modern Figurative Prints

    Materials

    Lithograph

  • Plan de la Nouvelle Orléans - Original Lithograph - 1880
    Located in Roma, IT
    Image dimensions: 9.3 x 16 cm. Plan de la Nouvelle Orléans is an interesting black and white lithograph on paper, realized in 1880 by an anonymous artist. Original Title: Plan de l...
    Category

    1880s Modern Figurative Prints

    Materials

    Lithograph

  • The Queen's Staircase - Original Lithograph by F.A. Pernot - 1836
    Located in Roma, IT
    The Queen's Staircase is an original modern artwork realized in 1836 by the French artist François Alexandre Pernot (1793-1865). Original Lithograph on paper. The sheet is glued on ...
    Category

    1830s Modern Figurative Prints

    Materials

    Lithograph

Recently Viewed

View All