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 see part 1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 - 4 also.
This is part 5 of a 10-part series on the works of Lawson Wood:
1930s Gran'pop Series Postcards continued from part 4:
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 see part 1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 - 4 also.
This is part 5 of a 10-part series on the works of Lawson Wood:
1930s Gran'pop Series Postcards continued from part 4:
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| Convalescence. |
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| Dutch postcard: The moral of this print? Do not crack a note that you do not know.) |
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| Dinner at 8. |
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| Dutch postcard: The world hints, the weather is getting better, leave all the burdens behind. |
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| Dutch postcard: When you're smart and powerful, just pull the longest end. |
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| Dutch postcard: Anyone who needs to lie down with flu does not have to say A after B. |
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| Dutch postcard: Who wants to tie love-knots, just hope. |
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| Dutch postcard; You can look long and wide, but one alone will not achieve anything. |
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| For health's sake - take things quietly. |
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| Giving him the works. |
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| Gran'pop as Queen of the May. |
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| Gran'pop believes in being air-minded. |
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| Gran'pop buys a pup. Grand Père a acheté une petite chienne. |
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| Gran'pop disapproves of the sun-bathers. |
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| Gran'pop does a bit of plumbing with his mate. |
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| Gran'pop floodlights for his jubilee. |
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| Gran'pop gives a cocktail party. |
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| Gran'pop gives a skating lesson. |
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| Gran'pop goes "Gliding" ( After joining the Air League ) postcard design watercolour and gouache 42.5 x 32.4 cm |
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| Gran'pop goes gliding. |
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| Gran'pop goes hiking. |
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| Gran'pop goes in for pearl fishing. |
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| Gran'pop goes modern and decorates his flat. |
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| Gran'pop goes Oxford. |
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| Gran'pop goes through the chair. |
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| Gran'pop has a little Scotch in him. |
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| Gran'pop likes being chiropped. |
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| Gran'pop looks in at the dentist. |
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| Gran'pop makes a jig-saw puzzle |
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| Gran'pop makes his hot cross buns. |
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| Gran'pop makes sure of his putt |
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| Gran'pop minds the baby. |
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| Gran'pop says - "'swat's happened?" |
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| Gran'pop says :- "You'll be missing this!" |
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| Gran'pop starts a band. |
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| Gran'pop says :- "This one's for you!" |
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| Gran'pop tests the swimming-bath water. |
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| Gran'pop tries a difficult shot. |
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| Gran'pop tries a Turkish bath. |
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| Gran'pop wants longer "odds." |
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| Gran'pop weighs in for The Derby. |
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| Gran'pop's bid for the Atlantic Blue Ribbon |
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| Gran'pop's shadow show. |
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| Gran'pop's view of the Leg-Theory. |
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| He Says he won't fly like a pheasant. |
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| It's a boy! |
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| Jump to it! |
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| Jump to it! |
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| Miss you badly at "Gib." |
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| My hat! |
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| Nothing wrong with his heart. |