The Mangle (w/c & pencil on paper)

Born in Dublin into a cultivated family, Albert Victor Ormsby Wood attended the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin in the 1920s. For several years he worked in stained glass studios of Harry Clarke, sometimes modeling for him. Towards the end of 1920s he moved to London, married, exhibited at RA and RHA and opened his own art school. After volunteering for the British Army he was badly wounded in the London Blitz and was invalided out. In 1949 he moved to Ansty, Sussex, where he lived the life of a reclusive artist. For many years Wood created highly stylized pictures of women and wrote erotic fiction.