Gertrude hermes artistic name
Sculptor, wood engraver, lino-cutter, illustrator and designer of great versatility....
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Sculptor, wood engraver, lino-cutter, illustrator and designer of great versatility.
Born at Bromley, Kent, Gerts, as she was known to her friends, first wanted to be a farmer and worked for a year on the land in Essex.
Artist's Background Gertrude Anna Bertha Hermes ( – ) attended the Beckenham School of Art just before she enrolled at Leon Underwood's.
Then she had a year at Beckenham School of Art and a year in Germany to learn the language, followed by four years at Leon Underwood’s School of Painting and Sculpture at Hammersmith, 1922–6. In 1926 married the artist Blair Hughes-Stanton, divorced 1933.
Was influenced by the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Brancusi and tribal sculpture in the 1920s and ’30s. First commission for a portrait bust was of the writer A P Herbert, in 1931, and she became noted for her busts of writers, such as Kathleen Raine (Tate Gallery) and David Gascoyne, and heads of children.
Worked for the Cresset Press, Gregynog Press and Golden Cockerel Press.
During World War II went with her children to Ca
