Gertrude hermes sculpture antique

Original Vellum. Condition: Near Fine. Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes, Leon Underwood, Stephen Gooden, Rene Ben Sussan, M E Groom, Eric Jones, Wladislaw Skoczylas, Hester Sainsbury, Frank Medworth, Eric Kennington, Eric Ravilious, John Nash, D Galanis (illustrator). Limited Edition. LIMITED EDITION. Limited edition of copies, of which this copy is numbered , 14 full-page wood engravings, p has been torn at the top corner and neatly mended (see photo), otherwise pages clean and crisp, top edge gilt, nice and bright, original vellum, lightly worn and marked, black leather spine label with gilt lettering, some scuffs to this. Printed at the Curwen Press, published by the Cresset Press, London With wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes, Leon Underwood, Stephen Gooden, Rene Ben Sussan, M E Groom, Eric Jones, Wladislaw Skoczylas, Hester Sainsbury, Frank Medworth, Eric Kennington, Eric Ravilious, John Nash, D Galanis PLEASE NOTE: THIS LARGE, HEAVY BOOK MAY COST E

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In the early 20th century, a cluster of British artists rediscovered the venerable technique of wood engraving. Although Georgian artists such as Thomas Bewick and William Blake had used it to create images of both delicacy and expressive power, it was a type of printmaking that had come to seem quaintly old-fashioned. Where etching and engraving, which offered greater refinement and tonal variety, were seen as an art, wood engraving was looked down on as being merely a craft.

However, in the years after the First World War, many artists – shocked by what they had experienced of the carnage wrought by the modern machine age – felt the lure of the traditional techniques and subjects they had once keenly sought to distance themselves from. They rejected the avant-gardism of the first decade of the century in search of something more stable to hold on to: the trend became known as the “return to order” and even Picasso, the founder of cubism, the most radical modern art movement,

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Gertrude Hermes ( &#; ) British Illustrator, Sculptor &#; Designer

Gertrude Anna Bertha Hermes ( &#; ) was a British wood engraver and sculptor. During the s, Hermes was a member of the English Wood Engraving kultur (–31) and showed his work at the Society of Wood Engravers, the Royal Academy, and The London Group.

Biography

Gertrude Anna Bertha Hermes was born in Bickley, Kent, on August 18, Louis August Hermes and Helene, née Gerdes, were from Altena, Germany, near Dortmund. She attended the Beckenham School of Art in around She then enrolled in Leon Underwood&#;s Brook Green School of Painting and Sculpture in , where she met Eileen Agar, Raymond Coxon, Henry Moore, and Blair Hughes-Stanton, whom she later married in They divorced in after separating in

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