Donald Wood

Donald Wood was a British painter of horses, dogs, and hunting scenes, sport scenes and sport motifs, and landscapes and worked in studios in London and Scotland. Little else is known of his life. He came from a Quaker family and served as a medic in World War I. His obituary in The Times noted that he could “paint pictures which have a certain individual charm.” Among these were Luxembourg Gardens and A la Crémerie, Rassay. Wood exhibited mostly in London. One of Woods’ paintings, Figures in a Country Park, featured in an episode of the BBC television programme “Bargain Hunt Road Trip” in 2012.

He entered the painting Jodhpur Ponies Ready for the Second Chukker to the 1932 Los Angeles Art Competitions. The only identified painting with a related motif is A rest between chukkas (oil on canvas, 49.5 x 60 cm). A figure at the edge indicates that a scene in India is depicted. The city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan has been a center of polo in India since the end of the 19th century.