George [William George] Woods New Zealand, 1898-1963
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About George [William George] Woods
George Woods was born 1898 in Kumara, Westland. He attended the old Wellington Art School and after visiting America and the Pacific in his twenties, he freelanced for a time as a commercial artist in Australia and New Zealand and later worked for both Charles Haines and Ilotts advertising agencies. Towards the end of his life, he devoted himself entirely to producing prints and drawings for his own enjoyment, supplimenting his income with occasional work for the school journals produced by the Department of Education. A. New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts retrospective exhibition catalogue of George Woods work in 1966 states in its introduction text that 'he cared not at all what people thought of his work, and in his later years emphasised his disregard by seldon exhibiting. For this reason his work is comparatively unknown to the younger generation of artists'.
We have records of art auction sales by George Woods from 1983 and in total 166 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 102 (61%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $2,344 for Landscape sold by Webb's in October 2001. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by George Woods are held by the Museum Of New Zealand, Auckland Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery.
George [William George] Woods is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 275
- Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, an online resource for biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators.
- The Find New Zealand Artists web site: a database of artist names that directs researchers to the rich resources found in New Zealand's libraries, art society exhibition histories and published sources.
- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
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