A sampler of her work from two notable Woodstock collections
Wilna Hervey, Central Park, Watercolor. Courtesy of the James Cox Gallery, Woodstock
Wilna Hervey, Picnic by the Lake, Enamel on Copper, 1974. Courtesy of the James Cox Gallery, Woodstock
Wilna Hervey, Lillies, Enamel on Copper, 1969. Courtesy of the James Cox Gallery, Woodstock
Wilna Hervey, Still Life on Blue Table, Enamel on Copper. Courtesy of the James Cox Gallery, Woodstock
Wilna Hervey, The Family, 1955. Enamel on copper. 10-1/8″x8″.
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Bequest of Nan Mason.
One of the earliest of Wilna Hervey’s enamel paintings, it hung above the couch
in her Bearsville home until her death in 1979.
A fascinating article! My grandparents, who were Wilna’s contemporaries, owned one of her enamel on copper paintings of a group of riders and horses dated 1966, which I inherited. They may well have known Wilna and her partner socially. Avid thoroughbred horse racing fans, they spent every August in Saratoga Springs, and also spent time every year in Beverly Hills, where they had friends in the movie business from the 1920’s until my grandfather’s death in 1982 (the same year Nan died). So the chances they knew her were high. Thank you so much for the biography.