Fathomless Sounding
About this artwork
The artist’s daughter has related this work to Hermes’ misery, following the break-up of her marriage. Hermes produced a body of prints during the period when Fathomless Sounding was made that were very different to what she had been making previously under the constraints of her illustrating jobs for publishers. These new prints were bolder and more aggressive in style, containing imagery from the natural world used to express psychological states.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Gertrude Hermes (1901 - 1983) English
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title:Fathomless Sounding
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date created:1932
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materials:Wood engraving on paper
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measurements:38.10 x 25.20 cm (paper 53.50 x 42.00 cm)
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1993
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accession number:GMA 3749
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gallery:
Gertrude Hermes
Gertrude Hermes
Gertrude Hermes was a sculptor and printmaker born in Kent. She attended the Brook Green School of Painting and Sculpture in Hammersmith, which was founded and run by artist Leon Underwood. Hermes was key in the revival of wood engraving in the early twentieth-century at a time when wood engraving...