Ernest Gimson as a designer

Magazine Antiques, June, 2002 by Mary Greensted

(6.) All of Gimson's surviving notebooks, sketchbooks, designs, and drawings referred to in this article are in the arts and crafts movement archives of the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum in Gloucestershire.

(7.) Mary Greensted, "Rodmarton Manor, the English arts and crafts movement at its best," The Magazine ANTIQUES, vol. 159, no. 6 (June 2001), p. 944.

(8.) Lethaby, Powell. and Griggs, Ernest Gimson, p. 15.

(9.) Freda Derrick, "Sapperton Today," Illustrated Carpenter and Builder, October 10,1952, p. 1690.

(10.) John Dando Sedding, Art and Handicraft (London, 1893), p. 134.

(11.) William Morris, "The Lesser Arts of Life" (1882) in The Collected Works of William Morris, ed. May Morris, vol. 22 (Longmans, Green and Company, London, 1914), p.262.

(12.) Information from "Blind Man's Gate," a taped interview with Ernest Smith and Harry Davoll conducted by Philip Donnellan (Edward Barnsley Educational Trust archive, Froxfield, Hampshire).

(13.) Charles Robert Ashbee journal entry. May 1914, C. R Ashbee Journals (Ashbee papers, Archive Centre, King's College, Cambridge), The information was supplied to me by Alan Crawford.

(14.) Ernest Gimson to Philip Webb, December 23, 1907 (arts and crafts movement archives, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum).

(15.) See n. 12.

(16.) Gimson to W.R Lethaby, May 10, 1916, transcript (arts and crafts movement archives, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum).

MARY GREENSTED is the keeper of visitor Services at the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum in Gloucestershire.