Artist Info
Nicolete Gray
20 July 1911–8 June 1997
British scholar of art and calligraphy
History at the University of Oxford in 1929.
Curated the touring exhibition Abstract and Concrete in 1936, the first showing of abstract art, and of the work of Mondrian, in England.
She taught at London's Central School of Art and Design 1964–81, where, with Nicholas Biddulph, she created the Central Lettering Record, an archive of lettering in every medium.
Her books include:
Nineteenth century ornamented types and title pages, 1938
2nd edition, as Nineteenth century ornamented typefaces, 1976
Lettering on Buildings, 1960
Lettering as Drawing: The Moving Line, 1970
Lettering as Drawing: Contour and Silhouette, 1970
A History of Lettering, 1976