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 - 9 also.
This is part 10 of a 10-part series on the works of Lawson Wood:
Gran'pop Series
published in America
continued from part 9:
Various undated pieces:
American advertising cards:
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 - 9 also.
This is part 10 of a 10-part series on the works of Lawson Wood:
Gran'pop Series
published in America
continued from part 9:
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| Arrival of the newborn gouache 38.1 x 29.8 cm |
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| Broken Television Set gouache 39.4 x 30.5 cm |
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| Carol Singers gouache 38.1 x 29.2 cm |
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| Take your choice |
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| Fireman |
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| Interrupted Decorator gouache 38.1 x 30.5 cm |
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| Interrupted Midnight Feast gouache 38.1 x 30.5 cm |
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| Jumbo Cola Thief gouache 38.1 x 29.8 cm |
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| Latest Hairdo gouache 38.1 x 30.5 cm |
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| Photographer's Studio gouache 39.4 x 30.5 cm |
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| Rodeo, Big Prizes gouache on paper 39.4 x 30.5 cm |
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| Untitled "Gran'pop decorator" |
Various undated pieces:
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| Her Service - Deuce |
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| Lawson Wood's Annual published by Dean & Son |
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| Lawson Wood's Annual published by Dean & Son |
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| Learning New Tricks |
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| Little Bo-Peep has lost her Sheep |
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| London's Tramways poster "The Zoo" |
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| - making and Egg 'flip' - oil on board 53.3 x 39.4 cm including matting |
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| Nine Pints of the Law |
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| Sweep Your Snow, Ma'am? |
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| Some nice things going on here. postcard |
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| The Dinosaur Rush pen and ink and watercolour 33.6 x 24.8 cm |
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| The First |
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| The sleepy pair watercolour and gouache 36.8 x 28.5 cm |
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| The young idea "There's one over there on the left with four currants!" watercolour and gouache 35.6 x 25.4 cm |
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| There was a fat man of Bombay |
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| Tom he was a Piper's Son. |
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| Untitled "Cats" |
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| Untitled "Dancing pig" |
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| Untitled "Duck Hunter" |
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| Untitled "Kitten" |
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| Untitled "Kitten" |
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| Untitled "Maid" |
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| Untitled "Monkeys" |
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| Untitled "Scotsman" |
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| Dutch: "Wat is daar voor belachelÿks aan?" |
American advertising cards:
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| "Put your little foot right out" A C Motors, Cincinnati, Ohio |
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| "Loading Zone" Bob McCormack Photographer |
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| "Bums Away" Edgar M. Cowan, Westfield, NY |
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| "Command performance"Edgar M. Cowan, Westfield, NY |
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| "Loading zone"Edgar M. Cowan, Westfield, NY |
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| "Pass the ammunition"Edgar M. Cowan, Westfield, NY |
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| "Surprise package"Edgar M. Cowan, Westfield, NY |
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| "The cold call"Edgar M. Cowan, Westfield, NY |
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| "Getting the Point" Edward D. Maltby Co. |
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| "Ping-Pong!" Manor Cleaners, Oaklyn, New Jersey |
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| The Bridal "Shower" The Pockrandt Paint Co., St. Paul, Minnesota |
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| "Safety First" The Pockrandt Paint Co. |