Gertrude Hermes

Gertrude Anna Bertha Hermes OBE RA (18 August 1901 – 9 May 1983) was a British wood-engraver and sculptor.

[1] Gertrude Anna Bertha Hermes was born on 18 August 1901 in Bickley, Kent.

Her parents, Louis August Hermes and Helene, née Gerdes, were from Altena, near Dortmund, Germany.

[2] In about 1921 she attended the Beckenham School of Art, and in 1922 enrolled at Leon Underwood's Brook Green School of Painting and Sculpture, where other students included Eileen Agar, Raymond Coxon, Henry Moore and Blair Hughes-Stanton, whom she married in 1926;[3][4] they separated in 1931, and were divorced in 1933.

In 1961, she was awarded first prize in the Giles Bequest competition at the Victoria and Albert Museum for her linocut Stonehenge.