Robert Wood California Oil Painting Listed CA
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California Coast Oil Painting with orginal wooden frame signed Robert Wood lower left. ****NOTE: Email for more images. NOTES: ROBERT WILLIAM WOOD (b1889-d1979) was an exceptional 20th century American artist. He is best known for his paintings of Landscapes, Mountains, Still-lifes, Flowers, and coast. Woods works have sold at major auction houses for prices in excess of $17,000. Robert Wood was born in Sandgate, England on March 24, 1889. Robert first studied painting with his father, W.J. Wood, and at age 12 entered the South Kensington School of Art. He immigrated to Los Angeles in 1912 but led an itinerant existence painting and living all over the United States. Working from coast to coast, he painted California landscapes, Southwestern desert scenes, the High Sierras, the Grand Tetons, Texas bluebonnets, in Florida and the Woodstock area of New York. A painter of realistic landscapes, reflecting a vanishing wilderness in America, Robert Wood is reportedly one of the most mass-produced artists in the United States. His painting became so popular he was unable to meet all of the demands, and many of his works were reproduced in lithographs and mass distributed as prints, place mats, and wall murals by companies including Sears, Roebuck. He was born in Kent on the south coast of England near Dover, the son of W.J. Wood, a famous
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