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
For more information on Wood see part 1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 & 2 also.
This is part 3 of a 10-part series on the works of Lawson Wood:
Pre 1920s early works:
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
For more information on Wood see part 1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 & 2 also.
This is part 3 of a 10-part series on the works of Lawson Wood:
Pre 1920s early works:
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| "Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye" postcard |
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| How to kiss the housemaid. postcard |
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| How to kiss your sweetheart. postcard |
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| "Lucky Dog." postcard |
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| Prehistoric Pastimes. "Football." postcard |
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| Suffrage postcard |
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| The Aberdonian doesn't see it! postcard |
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| The Baby and how to train it - Give it everything it cries for. postcard |
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| The Baby and how to train it - Let it get familiar with strangers. postcard |
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| The Baby and how to train it - Let it get plenty of fresh air. postcard |
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| The Bashful Man at the Ball postcard |
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| The Bashful Man at the Garden Party postcard |
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| The Bashful Man leaving the Theatre postcard |
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| The Bashful Man makes a Friendly Call postcard |
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| Untitled "Child and Ducks" watercolour |
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| "Where's your number?" postcard |
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| "You are in Danger of Losing a Friend, Write soon and All will be Well!" postcard |
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| A walk over. |
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| Bribery postcard |
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| Bulldogs postcard |
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| By the Doctor's orders. postcard |
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| Cold Sport |
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| Easy, father; easy, don't waggle your leg about so much or you'll Lose 'im!" postcard |
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| Exchange is no Robbery postcard |
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| Good morning! - There's something to crow about here. postcard |
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| Why We Crow About Felixstowe postcard |
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| Happy Hours at Christmas postcard |
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| Hot Stuff! postcard published by Salmon, Sevenoaks, Kent |
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| "If yer gimme a penny Guv'nor I wont split on yer!" postcard |
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| Is that measles? postcard |
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| Man. I'm having a g-r-r-and time postcard |
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| My Wife Doesn't know Where I am - Neither do I! postcard |
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| "Netjes Eten!" ( Eat Properly! ) |
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| On the Starboard tack postcard |
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| "On the Tree Top." postcard |
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| Parking here for a while! postcard |
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| Put it in the Van, Sir? |
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| "Seems to me I've always loved you!" postcard |
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| The arm of the law. postcard |
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| The Measured Mile Gale & Polden post card series |
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| There's a long time of waiting! postcard |
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| Top Dog. postcard |
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| We don't think. postcard |
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| 1920s Some nice things going on here. postcard |
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| 1920s The Apple |
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| 1921 I'm likely to hang on here a bit longer. postcard |
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| 1921 Mural in a Canadian bungalow Photo by David Cubberley, owner. |
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| 1922 Untitled "Too many apples" |
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| 1923 "May I press you to a jelly?" postcard |
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| 1923 "You're another!" postcard |
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| 1923 Snookered! Advertisement for Booths Fireproof Doors |
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| 1923 What - again! postcard |
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| 1923 Why don't you write, you little monkey? postcard |