Maud Winifred Kimbell Sherwood (1880–1956) was a notable New Zealand artist, exhibiting at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, the Royal Academy of Arts, London and the Paris Salon.

[1] Kimbell was born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand in 1880.

[3] She studied art at the Wellington Technical College and was taught by James Nairn, Mary Tripe and Mabel Hill.

Upon leaving Europe she settled in Australia[4] In 1917 she married Alfred Charles Sherwood whom she divorced in 1922.

In 1925 she returned to New Zealand, traveling back to Europe in 1926 where she stayed and exhibited for seven years, including and exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.