George Claude Leon Underwood (25 December 1890 – 9 October 1975), known primarily as Leon Underwood, was a British artist, although primarily known as a sculptor, printmaker and painter, he was also an influential teacher and promoter of African art. His travels in Mexico and West Africa had a substantial influence on his art, particularly on the representation of the human figure in his sculptures and paintings.

Underwood is best known for his sculptures cast in bronze, carvings in marble, stone and wood and his drawings. His lifetime's work includes a wide range of media and activities, with an expressive and technical mastery. Underwood did not hold modernism* and abstraction* in art in high regard and this led to critics often ig...