David Jones

Printed from the copper plate in sepia on a sheet of thick white wove paper c.27 x 22.5 cm. Number 22/60 copies as issued by Anthony d’Offay, Ltd in 1979. There was a first edition of 20 proof copies in 1926. David Jones studied at Camberwell School of Art 1909-15 under A.S.Hartrick. From 1919-22 at Westminster School of Art under Bernard Meninsky and Walter Bayes before joining Eric Gill at the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic in Sussex 1922-4 also working with Gill in Wales 1925-27. First one-man show at St. Georges Gallery in 1927 and exhibited widely at home and abroad. Was a member of the SWE and the 7 & 5 Society and illustrated books and published his own writings including In Parenthesis of 1937 which won the Hawthornden Prize. Many public institutions hold his work incl. Tate Gallery.