Gertrude Hermes

[1901-1983]

Sculptor and wood engraver

Gertrude Hermes spent several years as a student at Leon Underwood's School. There she met Blair Hughes-Stanton, whose first wife she became. A member of the London Group, which she joined in 1935, her work included portrait sculpture, decorative carvings for buildings, and the wood engraving of decorations for books - with such commissions as the fountain and door furniture for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, 1932, the Britannia Window in the British Pavilion, Paris, 1937, three glass panels for the British Pavilion at the New York Worlds Fair in 1939, and engravings for a number of private presses, including Cresset and Golden Cockerel. She was teacher of wood engraving at the Royal Academy Schools until 1976. Gertrude Hermes made a wood-cut for Lawrence - High explosive.

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