Hazel Armour

Scope and Content
Scottish Women's Hospitals Medal; bronze medal with tartan ribbon; relief of three figures, wounded soldier flanked by a nurse on one side and a winged figure of death on the other, with verso inscription NUWSS/ Scottish Women's Hospitals/ 1914; (1 item)
Administrative / Biographical History
Hazel Armour was born in Edinburgh in 1894. A painter of flowers, she is more widely known as a sculptor. She studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, and then in Paris. After her marriage to John Kennedy in 1921 she retained studios in both Edinburgh and London, visiting South Africa twice to make studies of tribal heads. She was commissioned to design 'The Tunnellers' Friends' panel in the Scottish National War Memorial. She exhibited at the RSA between 1914 and 1961, and died in 1985.
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Custodial History
Purchased 1999

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