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The son of the well-known landscape painter Pinhorn Wood, Lawson Wood had an early contact with the artworld. By the age of eighteen he was employed as principal artist by the publishing house, Arthur Pearson, after which he very soon began contributing to well-known periodicals such as Graphic, Punch, and The Illustrated London News. As a student, he had taken evening classes at Frank Calderon's School of Animal Painting founding an early sensitivity to the careful rendition of the Animal Kingdom. Combined with his well established cartoon approach, the result was his humorous personification of animal subjects for which he is best known today. The artful ginger ape, Gran'pop, first appeared in the Sketch in the 1930's and quickly became favourite. The following 9 lots illustrate a few of the hilarious days in the life of Gran'pop.
Clarence Lawson Wood (1878-1957)
Gran'pop-at it again Express delivery
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Clarence Lawson Wood (1878-1957)
Gran'pop-at it again
Express delivery
signed '.Lawson/Wood.'
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, on board, unframed
15 x 12in. (38 x 30cm.)
Gran'pop-at it again
Express delivery
signed '.Lawson/Wood.'
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, on board, unframed
15 x 12in. (38 x 30cm.)