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Thelma Ellen Wood (July 3, 1901 – December 10, 1970) was an American artist, specialising in the traditional fine line drawing technique known as Silverpoint. She was noted for her hectic private life, and her lesbian relationship with Djuna Barnes was fictionalized in Barnes' novel Nightwood.
Thelma Ellen Wood was born in Kansas on July 3, 1901 to Maud and William Wood. She was one of four children and claimed Native American heritage (Herring 10). Wood loved animals, cooking, and nature (Corrine).
Oct 1, 2013 · This article presents extensive archival and biographical research to underpin a fuller, critical account of Thelma Wood’s life, relationship with Barnes and artistic career.
Thelma Ellen Wood (July 3, 1901 – December 10, 1970) was an American sculptor. She was born in Kansas and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She was a sculptor and silverpoint artist who is best known for her lesbian relationships, particularly with Djuna Barnes.
May 26, 2017 · Barnes’s refusal to turn her love for the silverpoint artist Thelma Wood into a signifier of her identity has sometimes frustrated readers who seek to celebrate her as a major lesbian voice in...
Thelma Wood was a well-known sculptor who frequented the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Often descibbed as having a sort of "sexual magnetism", she was the lover of such women like novelist Djuna Barnes, photographer Berenice Abbott, and Henriette Alice McCrea.
This article presents extensive archival and biographical research to underpin a fuller, critical account of Thelma Wood’s life, relationship with Barnes and artistic career. It situates her much more centrally than prevailing accounts of the modernist period within the modernist networks of Paris, Berlin and New York.
