Robert William Wood was an American landscape painter who lived from March 4, 1889 until March 14, 1979. He was born in England, moved to the United States, and became famous in the 1950s after millions of his colour reproductions were sold. In the 1930s, he was active in the art communities of San Antonio, Texas, Monterey, California, and Laguna Beach, California. Robert William Wood was born near the White Cliffs of Dover in Sandgate, Kent, England. W. L. Wood, a well-known home and church painter, noticed and encouraged his son's talent. Instead of letting his son play with his friends, he kept him home and forced him to paint. Wood enrolled in the South Kensington School of Art in nearby Folkestone when he was 12 years old. Wood received four first honours and three second awards for his paintings while still in school. After immigrating from England in 1910, he travelled across the United States in search of landscape subjects, from Maine to California. In 1940, he relocated to Laguna Beach, California. In the early 1960s, Wood and his wife, the artist Caryl Wood, relocated to the Owens Valley in Bishop, California. They built apartments for each of them on a vast plot of land with its own trout pond. The Woods made acquaintances with landscape painters Robert Clunie and Richard Coons while in Bishop. The Woods decided to sell the house and relocate to San Diego, where they refurbished a Victorian mansion. They returned to Bishop after a few years in San Diego, where they bought a smaller home. Wood died in Bishop at the age of ninety, barely a month before a major retrospective show organised by Howard Morseburg and Newport Beach gallery owner Raymond Hagen at the Morseburg Galleries in Los Angeles. Print comes in Great Condition.

Dimensions: 1295 x 40 x 685H mm

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