Biography
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1890
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Born in Shepherd's Bush, London
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1907-10
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Studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic
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1910-13
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Studied at the Royal College of Art
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1913
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Travelled to Russia
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1919-20
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Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art
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1920
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Won the Prix de Rome
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1921
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Opened the Brook Green School of Art, Hammersmith
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1926
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Published 'Animalia'
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1926-27
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Travelled to the United States and Canada
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1928
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Travelled to Mexico
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1931
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Reformed the Brook Green School of Art; founded 'The Island'
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1939-42
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Served in the Civil Defence Camouflage unit
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1945
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Visited West Africa
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1961
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Retrospective at the Kaplan Gallery
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1975
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Died
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Selected Collections
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The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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British Council Collection, London
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Brooklyn Museum, New York
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The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
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Government Art Collection, London
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Hammersmith and Fulham Archives
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Imperial War Museums
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Jerwood Collection
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Manchester Art Gallery
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National Museum Wales
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National Portrait Gallery, London
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National Trust
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Tate
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Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Selected Publications
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Wilenski, R.H., 'Draughtsmen: Edna Clarke Hall, Henry Rushbury, Randolph Schwabe, Leon Underwood', London : Ernest Benn, 1924
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Underwood, L., 'Animalia', New York: Payson & Clarke, 1926
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Underwood, L., 'The Siamese Cat', New York : Brentano, 1928
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Underwood, L., 'Art for Heaven's Sake : Notes on the Philosophy of Art Today', London: Faber, 1934
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Underwood, L., 'Figures in Wood of West Africa', London: John Tiranti Ltd., 1947
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Underwood, L., 'Masks of West Africa', London: Alec Tiranti Ltd., 1948
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Underwood, L., 'Bronzes of West Africa', London: Alec Tiranti Ltd., 1949
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Neve, C., 'Leon Underwood', London: Thames and Hudson, 1974
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Tute, G. (introduction), 'Leon Underwood: His Wood Engravings', Wakefield : Fleece Press, 1986
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Whitworth, B., 'The Sculpture of Leon Underwood', The Henry Moore Foundation and Lund Humphries, 2000
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