Lawson Wood

Lawson Wood ( born August 23, 1878 in Highgate, London, † October 26, 1957 ) was a British painter, illustrator and cartoonist. He was the child of a family of artists.

Wood studied at the Slade School of Art and worked from 1896 for six years from the publisher C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.. , Where he met his future wife. After that, he earned money as a freelance artist. During the First World War and Wood Ballonbeaobachter was recorded for the army sketches. After the war, Wood discovered his love for wildlife and humorous drawings were moving ever more into the foreground of his works. To ensure the accuracy of the details, Wood regularly visited London Zoo and a small menagerie in Eastbourne.

Wood won relative popularity with his drawings of a comic policeman of letters, prehistoric animals and monkeys.

Towards the end of his life he lived in retirement in a medieval house of the 15th century in which he lived in the midst of Sussex. He died at the age of 79 years.

  • Artist
  • Cartoonist
  • Briton
  • Born in 1878
  • Died in 1957
  • Man
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