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The Art of Vernon Hill

Vernon Hill (1887-1953) is among the illustrators associated with the Golden Age of Illustration - and is particularly

associated with the relatively obscure Art Nouveau Gothic movement.

The Vernon Hill Collection at Spirit of the Ages includes art images from some of Hill's seminal work. As a valuable

reference resource, options are also provided for purchasing a range of gifts, including reproduction prints, posters and

greeting cards.

Hill undertook formal training in print-making at an early age, being apprenticed as a lithographer in his early teens. His

first commissioned illustrations are thought to be The Arcadian Calendar for 1910 published by John Lane The Bodley Head

in 1909 for the following year. Two further commissions followed from the same publisher and further suites of images

from Hill were published in exceedingly low volumes in The New Inferno (1910) and Ballads Weird and Wonderful (1912).

Following war service undertaken during World War I, Hill returned to artistic pursuits, but was to never receive the

comprehensive commissions for book illustrations that he was granted earlier in his career. Instead, his later career focused

on sculpting and was involved in a number of public commissions, including work on Guildford Cathedral, St Columba's

Church and Middle Temple.

Given the extremely low volumes in which his illustrations were published, we are, indeed, fortunate to have these

wonderful surviving examples from such a talented artist.

We invite you to take the time to peruse the wonderful artwork from Vernon Hill that is included in the Collection -

to view images from any one of Hill's suites or illustrations listed below, simply 'click' on the hyperlinks embedded within

the titles and the images.

The Arcadian Calendar for 1910 12 images	The New Inferno 16 images	Ballads Weird and Wonderful 25 images	Winged Figures 1 image
A Sleeper 1 image	Solitude 1 image	Sweeping Flame 1 image	The Elements 1 image