Lawson Wood was born on 23 August 1878 in Highgate, London, the son of landscape artist Pinhorn Wood, and the grandson of architectural artist L.J. Wood. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, Heatherley's School of Fine Art and Frank Calderon's School of Animal Painting.
Lawson Wood gained immense popularity with his humorous drawings of comic policemen, dinosaurs, prehistoric and Stone Age characters, and apes and monkeys often seen performing absurd antics against immaculate, dead-pan backgrounds. Eventually Gran'pop, the artful ginger ape and the rest of the chimpanzee family were to bring him fame on both sides of the Atlantic. The Gran'pop's Annuals were a yearly excursion into comic absurdities that were popular around the world.
For more information on Wood, and for earlier works, see part 1 also.
This is part 2 of a 10-part series on the works of Lawson Wood:
1914-18 World War 1 Postcards:
Lawson Wood gained immense popularity with his humorous drawings of comic policemen, dinosaurs, prehistoric and Stone Age characters, and apes and monkeys often seen performing absurd antics against immaculate, dead-pan backgrounds. Eventually Gran'pop, the artful ginger ape and the rest of the chimpanzee family were to bring him fame on both sides of the Atlantic. The Gran'pop's Annuals were a yearly excursion into comic absurdities that were popular around the world.
For more information on Wood, and for earlier works, see part 1 also.
This is part 2 of a 10-part series on the works of Lawson Wood:
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| 1913 Swap Card "King George IV" Old Scotch Whisky |
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| Swap Card "A Hot Scent." |
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| Swap Card "Andrews Liver Salt" |
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| 1914 "Pinched." postcard |
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| 1914 Deeds, Not Words! |
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| 1914 Hero Worship. postcard |
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| 1914-15c A Basket of Plums by Lawson Wood |
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| 1914-18 Rameses Underwear advertisement lithograph 76 x 50.8 cm |
1914-18 World War 1 Postcards:
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| 1914 St Clair War Series No.1 A Chip of the Old Block. |
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| 1914 St Clair War Series No.2 Waiting for Daddy. I must take care of Mummy now! |
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| 1914 St Clair War Series No.3 Hands Across the Sea. |
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| 1914 St Clair War Series No.4 Mother o' mine. |
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| 1914 St Clair War Series No. 7 A wee "scrap o' paper" is Britain's Bond. |
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| 1914 St Clair War Series No.8 Duty and Honour bid us part. |
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| 1914 Your King & Country Need You to Maintain the Honour and Glory of the British Empire colour lithograph 75 x 50 cm |
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| 1914 Your King & Country Need You to Maintain the Honour and Glory of the British Empire colour lithograph 75 x 50 cm |
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| 1914-18 Outgeneralled |
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| 1915 "Why aren't You in the Army?" "Pourquoi n'êtes-vous pas soldat?" |
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| 1915 OK. |
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| 1916 "A Friend of a Friend of Mine!" |
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| 1916 "Girls! and All the Need for Men!" |
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| 1916 "I've never left Mother, and I hate to leave her now!" WWI recruitment postcard |
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| 1916 A British Warm. |
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| 1916 A little of what you fancy does you good! Il faut prendre son plaisir quand on le peut! |
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| 1916 First Prize watercolour and gouache 29.2 x 19 cm |
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| 1916 Just you, dear, and I. La rencontre de Mars et Vénus. |
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| 1916 "Mother, I'm forgetting you advice!" "Maman, j'oublie tes recommandations!" |
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| 1916 Telling it to the Marines. |
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| 1916c Any Complaints? Les attraits du boulevard. |
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| "The Roses have made me remember" Inter-Art Co. "Artistique" postcard series * * * * * |
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| 1914c The Sabbath Breaker postcard |
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| 1915 How Pongo lost his wife. |
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| 1918 Dropping the Pilot. postcard |
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| 1915-20c Mr Polly |
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| 1915-20c The Packet of "Rummy Tales" Box Set published by Frederick Warne |
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| 1915-20c Rummy Tales "The Curly Tail" |
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| 1915-20c Rummy Tales "The Pig-Tail" |
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| 1915-20c Rummy Tales "The Strong Tail" |
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| 1915c A Fearful Accident - ! "If a ha'ed a squir'rt 'a' might sti'il save a drap or twa -" postcard |
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| 1915c A Game of Patience. postcard |
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| 1915c Hello! Mother's been shopping again. Tiens! mamam a encore été dans les magasins! postcard |
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| 1915c Stymied. postcard |
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| 1916 "Bill, the honeymoon is over; the bride 'as ordered onions! postcard |
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| 1916 "I'll teach those bally gold-fish to snap at me!" postcard |
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| 1916c Wait and See! postcard |
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| 1917 "We've been married five years now, and have nothing running around our garden but a little fence" watercolour and gouache 29.5 x 19 cm |
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| 1919 Ice Cream "Antonio Freezo Ice Cream Merchant" postcard |
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| 1919 "Forthwith he mobilised a force and led it - by request" |
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| 1919 I'll be waiting at the k-k-k-kitchen door. Le premier rendez-vous. postcard |
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| 1920 Johnson Brothers dry cleaning advertisement postcard |
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| 1920s Keep you pecker up! postcard |