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 - 6 also.
This is part 7 of a 10-part series on the works of Lawson Wood:
1941-45 American WWII posters:
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 - 6 also.
This is part 7 of a 10-part series on the works of Lawson Wood:
1941-45 American WWII posters:
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| 1941-45 WWII poster Our Boys Aren't Kicking |
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| 1941-45 WWII poster Bonds Buy Bombers to Blast the Bums |
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| 1941-45 WWII poster Don't Horse Around |
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| 1941-45 WWII poster Freedom Doesn't Grow on Trees |
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| 1941-45 WWII poster Gentlemen Prefer Bonds |
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| 1941-45 WWII poster Get Plenty of Sleep |
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| 1941-45 WWII poster Keep Plugging |
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| 1941-45 WWII poster Keep Secrets Under Cover |
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| 1941-45 WWII poster Keep Your Chin Up |
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| 1941-45 WWII poster Pass the Ammunition |
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| 1941-45 WWII poster Shooting the Bull Won't Win the War |
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| 1941-45 WWII poster Victory's Not on Ice Yet |
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| 1942 Collier's magazine April 18 1942 |
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| 1942 Collier's magazine January 24 1942 |
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| 1943 Collier's magazine March 20 1943 |
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| 1943 Colliers magazine May 8 1943 |
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| 1945 Collier's magazine March 3 1945 |
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| 1945 Lawson Wood's Merry Monkeys published by Birn Brothers, London |
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| 1946 Collier's magazine June 22 1946 |
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| 1946 Music and Moonlight Collier's magazine front cover 30 March 1946 gouache on board |
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| 1946 Music and Moonlight Collier's magazine March 30 1946 |
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| 1946 Poor Pork's been feeling poorly of late, more grit in his diet he's got to take watercolour and gouache 44.4 x 33.6 cm Lawson Wood "Mischief Makers" Birn Bros. 1946 |
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| 1946 Withholding Tax watercolour and gouache 38.7 x 30.5 cm design for an advertisement card for the Clapp Machinery Company, March 1946 |
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| 1947 Collier's magazine January 25 1947 |
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| 1947 Collier's magazine June 7 1947 |
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| 1947 Untitled "Mask" |
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| 1949 Panorama magazine September 1949 |
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| 1950 Gran'pop's Annual published by Dean & Son |
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| 1950s Don't Let Anybody Monkey With Your Car |
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| 1950s Sunlight Soap advertisement postcard |
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| 1950s Sunlight Soap advertisement postcard reverse |
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| 1951c A Growing Business watercolour and gouache 37 x 30.5 cm |
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| 1951c Fan Mail watercolour and gouache 40 x 30 cm |
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| 1951c Logging Off watercolour and gouache 37 x 29.5 cm |
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| 1951c Morning Delivery watercolour and gouache 40 x 31 cm |
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| 1951c The Making Up Department watercolour and gouache 37 x 30.5 cm |
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| 1951c The Shape of Things to Come watercolour and gouache 37 x 29 cm |
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| 1952 Gran'pop's Annual published by Dean |
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| 1952 Panorama magazine cover November 1952 |
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| 1953 Illustrated Family Journal November 24 - 16 June 1953 |
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| 1955 Playhour comic March 26 1955 |
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| 1957 Panorama magazine cover January 1957 |
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| 1957 Panorama magazine cover July 1957 |
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| 1957 Panorama magazine cover November 1957 |
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| A Great Catch |
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| A Great Shame postcard |
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| A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned postcard |
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| A Warm Corner |
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| Advertising card ( U.S. ) Hitting the High Spots |
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| Advertising card ( U.S. ) Small Fry |
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| All for the love of a lady! Tout cela pour l'amour d'une femme! postcard |
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| All Scotch" No.6 "All Scotch thrift. A bag-pipe champion reducing his gas bill watercolour and gouache 35.6 x 25.4 cm |