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 - 5 also.
This is part 6 of a 10-part series on the works of Lawson Wood:
1930s Gran'pop Series Postcards continued from part 5:
1940s Calendar:
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 - 5 also.
This is part 6 of a 10-part series on the works of Lawson Wood:
1930s Gran'pop Series Postcards continued from part 5:
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| Percy is entered for the Point to Point. |
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| Physical Jerks. Culture physique. |
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| Physical Jerks watercolour and gouache on tinted paper 43.2 x 31.7 cm |
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| Raising the wind. |
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| Say A-a-a-ah! |
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| "Step on it, Horace!" |
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| "Tell Mother it isn't worth it" |
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| The 19th "hole." |
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| The finishing touch. |
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| The last straw! Quelle couche! |
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| The Spring cruise at Gib.– An Atomic Submarine. |
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| Tough nuts. |
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| 1930s Lawson Wood's Annual published by Dean |
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| 1931c Lawson Wood's Fun Fair published by Arundel Prints, London |
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| 1932 Collier's magazine November 12, 1932 |
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| 1932 Collier's magazine September 24, 1932 |
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| 1933 Collier's magazine July 15, 1933 |
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| 1933 Collier's magazine March 25, 1933 |
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| 1933 Collier's magazine September 16, 1933 |
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| 1933 The Old Nursery Rhymes published by Thomas Nelson and Sons |
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| 1933 The Old Nursery Rhymes published by Thomas Nelson and Sons |
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| 1934 Gran'pop gets his own back after being left out of "The Sketch" beauty number, by holding his own beauty show watercolour and gouache 34.3 x 29.8 cm The Sketch 16 May 1934 |
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| 1934 The Sketch magazine cover September 1934 |
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| 1935 Collier's magazine July 1935 |
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| 1935c "Now," said Gran'pop, "all stand clear, this rocket's for the stratosphere." watercolour and gouache 38.1 x 27.9 cm |
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| 1936 De Stad Panorama August magazine cover |
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| 1936 De Stad Panorama October magazine cover |
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| 1936 Monkeys |
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| 1937 Collier's magazine July 17, 1937 |
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| 1937 Collier's magazine May 1, 1937 |
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| 1937 De Stad Amsterdam magazine cover December 9 1937 |
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| 1937 Ons Land Panorama magazine cover May 27 1937 |
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| 1938 Calendar Rich Chevrolet, Inc., Huntington, West VA |
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| 1939 'S-Gravenhage in Beeld Panorama March 9 1939 magazine cover |
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| 1939 Collier's magazine February 4, 1939 |
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| 1939 Collier's magazine September 30, 1939 |
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| 1939 De Stad Amsterdam Panorama July 1939 magazine cover |
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| Jeepers! Reapers 1939 Illustrated magazine 16 September 1939 |
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| 1939 Swinging it lithographic print |
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| 1940 Collier's magazine April 27, 1940 |
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| 1940 Collier's magazine February 24, 1940 |
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| c1940 Gran'pop's Annual published by Dean |
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| 1941 Collier's magazine 8, November 1941 |
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| 1941 Collier's magazine August 9, 1941 |
1940s Calendar:
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| A Pot Shot |
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| It's in the Bag |
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| Just a Little Squirt |
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| Let 'er Go |
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| No Wise Quacks, Please |
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| Soaking the Rich |
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| Something on the Ball |
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| Stealing His Stuff |
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| The Finishing Touches |