Background
He was born in Cheadle Hulme in south Manchester. His mother was an artist and his father a cutler and surgical instrument maker.
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Wilfrid Wood
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He studied art at Manchester School of Art, and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
Career
He painted urban landscapes of British towns such as Stamford, Lincolnshire, where he settled, in the village of Barnack, in 1937. He was schooled at Manchester Grammar School, leaving at 16. During the First World War he enlisted in the Artists" Rifles and was commissioned in the Machine Gun Corps, serving in France & Flanders and Italy.
He lived in Hampstead, London from 1920 to 1937 and in 1926 he created a series of posters for the London Underground.
Wilfrid Wood"s contributions to his community are remembered in the Wilfrid Wood Gallery at the Stamford Arts Centre and the Wilfrid Wood Hall (the village hall) at Barnack.
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British