This book redresses the imbalance and creates a new and fresh perspective on an important female artist of the twentieth century. Featuring over 140 images, The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes is a groundbreaking study of an artist so long associated with one art form. What results is a picture of a pioneering spirit who created busts and heads, functional designs, decorative work and reliefs that are dynamic and unpredictable. Along with a comprehensive catalogue of Hermes' sculpture, Jane Hill provides a full account of the artist's life in the context of her career as a sculptor. The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes presents for the first time a full analysis of the artist's entire sculptural oeuvre. In contrast, her contribution as a sculptor has been somewhat eclipsed - until now. Much has been written about Hermes' career as a wood engraver. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom brought them critical acclaim. Although their marriage was short-lived, their exuberant visual inventions for Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and T.E. Hermes and her husband, Blair Hughes-Stanton, who she met at Brook Green, went on to become leading lights in the early twentieth-century's wood-engraving revival. A graduate of Leon Underwood's Brook Green School of Art in London, Gertrude Hermes (1901-83) trained as a painter and sculptor. In the 1820s they move from Vermont to Palmyra Township in upstate New York in search of better farmland. Near Fine in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. Lund About Product: Pillar of Light the first volume in the series The Work and the Glory begins the epic story of the Benjamin Steed family.
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