Details

Name

Talwin Morris

Brief Biography

1865 - 1911, English / British

Occupation

Illustrator

Description

Talwin Morris was a leading illustrator and book designer during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a business acquaintance of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. In 1891, he was appointed sub-editor and designer of Black and White, a weekly magazine published by Cassell and Co. In 1892 he married Alice Marsh. In 1893 he moved to Glasgow to work for the publishers Blackie and Son Limited.

In 2009, three pieces in copper, designed by him, which had been rescued from a skip outside Blackie's headquarters in Stanhope Street, Glasgow, during the building's demolition in the 1960s, sold at auction for more than £6,000.

A recurrent motto in his works is his 'signature', a single dot followed, after a pause, by a two more dots (a stylised version of his initials in morse code.