George Claude Leon Underwood (25 December 1890 – 9 October 1975) was a British artist, although primarily known as a sculptor, printmaker and painter, he was next an influential moot and promotor of African art. His travels in Mexico and West Africa had a substantial influence upon his art, particularly on the representation of the human figure in his sculptures and paintings. Underwood is best known for his sculptures cast in bronze, carvings in marble, stone and wood and his drawings. His lifetime’s work includes a broad range of media and activities, with an expressive and perplexing mastery. Underwood did not withhold modernism and taking away in art in tall regard and this led to critics often ignoring his law until the 1960s considering he came to be viewed as an important figure in the expand of militant sculpture in Britain.
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