Macdonald Gill, Leslie

Leslie "Max" Macdonald Gill (1884-1947) was a pioneering pictorial mapmaker and one of the foremost graphic designers of the early twentieth century. In 1909 the eminent architect Edwin Lutyens commissioned a painted wind-dial map from him or Nashdom, a neo-classical villa in Buckinghamshire, the first of several such wind dial maps. He is perhaps best known for his Wonderground Map of London Town (1914) commissioned by Frank Pick for London Underground. During World War Two he was commissioned by the Ministry of Information to design propaganda material. Two of his mural maps adorn the entrance to the House of Commons through St Stephen’s Porch in the Palace of Westminster: A plan of the Houses of Parliament and A map of The Cities of London and Westminster