Stanley Llewellyn Wood (1866–1928) was a Welsh artist and illustrator known for dramatic adventure scenes, lively depictions of horses and illustrations for popular boys' books and magazines. Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, on 10 December 1866, he established a career in commercial illustration during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.
Wood worked for publishers supplying illustrated fiction to a large readership. His pictures appeared in boys' adventure stories, serial magazines and books, and he became particularly associated with the Captain Kettle stories by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne. Horses, riders, chases and confrontations were recurring subjects, often shown from energetic viewpoints designed to convey movement.
His work extended to stories set in the American West, where galloping horses and dramatic frontier encounters offered opportunities for strong contrasts and action-filled compositions. An example is The Redskins Sent Shots, published in the British Boys' Annual of 1927. The picture illustrates the conventions of adventure fiction of its period; its original caption uses terminology that is now outdated.
Wood also illustrated novels and other popular literature, producing both black-and-white drawings and colour work. His illustrations were intended to attract readers and develop the drama of a story, frequently placing action and gesture at the centre of the image.
He married Mary Elizabeth Jenkins in London in 1899, and the couple had three sons. Wood died at his home in Palmers Green, north London, on 1 March 1928.
His illustrations provide a record of the visual style and interests of British popular adventure publishing in the decades around 1900.
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Wood, Stanley L. (1866-1928) - The Redskins sent shots 1927
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