Maud Winifred Sherwood

Maud Winifred Sherwood studied at Wellington Technical College and Wellington High School. Training under James Nairn, Richard Edward Miller and Mary Elizabeth Tripe is recorded. The recorded working language is English. Work by Maud Winifred Sherwood is recorded in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery, Alexander Turnbull Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, National Gallery of Australia and Te Manawa.

• Name — Maud Winifred Sherwood • Birth Name — Maud Winifred Kimbell • Born — 22 December 1880 • Birthplace — Dunedin, New Zealand. • Died — 1 December 1956 • Place of death — Katoomba, New South Wales. • Education — Wellington Technical College • Known for — Painting

Kimbell was born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand in 1880. In the 1890s her family moved to Wellington. She studied art at the Wellington Technical College and was taught by James Nairn, Mary Tripe and Mabel Hill. When Nairn died in 1904, Sherwood took over his sketching and still-life classes and she continued to teach at Wellington Technical College until 1911. After leaving the college, Kimbell traveled and studied in Europe until 1913. Upon leaving Europe she settled in Australia 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. Sherwood returned to Australia in 1933 where she was awarded the Coronation Medal in 1937 and an Australian 150th Anniversary Exhibition Medal in 1938. She was a member of the Society of Artists..., Sydney. She died on 1 December 1956 in Katoomba, Australia Public collections in both New Zealand and Australia hold her paintings.

The authorities additionally record the headings Maud Sherwood, Maud W. Sherwood, Maud Winifred Kimbell, M. Sherwood and Maud W. Her recorded language was English.