Wood Engraving WednesdayGERTRUDE HERMESLast week we mentioned Gertrude Hermes only as the beleaguere
Wood Engraving WednesdayGERTRUDE HERMESLast week we mentioned Gertrude Hermes only as the beleaguered wife of English wood engraver Blair Hughes-Stanton and as an employee of the Welsh private press Gwasg Gregynog. Hermes, however, was also an accomplished sculptor and wood engraver in her own right, maintaining a long career from the mid 1920s until her debilitating stroke in 1969.This week we present four original wood engravings by Gertrude Hermes from R. H. Mottram’s Strawberry Time and The Banquet, printed in 1934 by master printer H. Barker at the Golden Cockerel Press for the Press’s third set of ownersChristopher Sandford, Owen Rutter, and Francis J. Newbery in an edition of 250 copies signed by the author. There are stylistic similarities between Hermes’s engravings and those of her former husband Blair Hughes-Stanton (by the time this book was printed, the couple were divorced). This could be because both were students inLeon Underwood’s Brook Green School in the early 1920s, where among their classmates was the great British sculptor Henry Moore.Gertrude Hermes would achieve numerous honors before her death in 1983, including being appointed an OBE in 1981. View our other posts on the books of the Golden Cockerel Press.View more posts with wood engravings! -- source link
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