Letters, papers, artworks, photographs and press cuttings on the painter (John) Christopher Wood 1927-1959

Wood Kit

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Gandarillas Tony

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Wood, Chris M.

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Dacre Winifred

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Wood, Christopher, 1901-1930

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Christopher Wood was born in Knowsley, near Liverpool on 7 April 1901, the son of Mrs Clare and Dr Lucius Wood, a GP. At fourteen, Wood began to draw during recuperation from septicaemia, and went on to study architecture briefly at Liverpool University, 1919-20. In London in 1920, the French collector Alphonse Kahn invited him to Paris, where Wood studied painting at the Academie Julian in 1921. He entered effortlessly into artistic circles, meeting Augustus John and the Chilean diplomat Antoni...