William Thomas Wood - Artist Info

About William Thomas Wood

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    William Thomas Wood (1877-1958)

    Primarily a landscape and flower painter, William Thomas Wood was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in 1877. He received his formal art education at the Regent Street Polytechnic and in Italy.

    In 1900, at the age of 23, he was living in Putney and exhibited his first work at the Royal Academy entitled Summer Heat. Between 1900 and 1947 he exhibited more than 55 works at the Royal Academy including February Flowers (1925), Corfe Castle (1926), Snow Shadows (1930), Cottage Garden Flowers (1933) and Morning Light (1947). In 1918 Wood was appointed the British official war artist for the Balkans.

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