WENDY WOOD (1892-1981) AND CORA CUTHBERT §
COLLECTION OF ARCHIVAL SKETCHES, BOOKS AND PICTURES
£813
Auction: 29 October 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
including several portfolios, loose sketches, framed pictures, pamphlets, published books and photographs (qty)
Footnote
Note: Wendy Wood (1892-1981) was an artist, writer, and fore mostly a campaigner for Scottish Independence. She was a founder of the original National Party of Scotland in 1928, but moved away to non-party approaches in the 1930s. In 1932, she stormed Stirling Castle and tore down the Union Jack to replace it with a flag of the lion rampant. When questioned over her birth right, having been born in Kent, Wood regularly retorted with 'one does not have to be a horse to be born in a stable!'
Wood's work was heavily influenced by her passion for Scotland, a love nurtured by her parents, which continued in the form of protests, campaigns and speeches for the cause of Scottish Independence, as well as sculptures, paintings and the written word. She trained with Walter Sickertt and regularly sent work to the Royal Scottish Academy. In her later life she read Scottish stories on BBC's Jackanory under the name Auntie Gwen, a reference to her real name: Gwendoline Meacham.