Leonard Woods (sculptor) explained

Leonard Woods
Birth Name:Leonard Archibald Woods
Birth Date:1919 11, df=y
Birth Place:Stonewall, Manitoba, Canada
Death Place:Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Education:Winnipeg School of Art, Ontario College of Art
Field:Sculptor
Works:The Angelic Symphony

Leonard Archibald Woods (1919 - 2014) was a Canadian sculptor, art historian, musician, composer, and author.[1] He is best known for his sculptures The Angelic Symphony, as well as for being a co-founder of Langley Community Music School.

Biography

Woods was born on 13 November 1919 in Stonewall, Manitoba.[2] His father worked at the nearby Stony Mountain Penitentiary.[3] He studied under LeMoine Fitzgerald at the Winnipeg School of Art, where he also learned sculpture, graduating in 1940. During World War II he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force before being discharged in 1943. After his service, he further trained in sculpture with Emmanuel Hahn at the Ontario College of Art.[4] Woods moved west to British Columbia where he re-opened the sculpture department at the Vancouver School of Art.[5]

In 1946, Woods exhibited three works with the British Columbia Artists Exhibition held at the Vancouver Art Gallery.[4] [6] Two years later, he created four bas-relief sculptures for the chancel of St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church in Vancouver.[7] They were entitled The Angelic Symphony.[8] Inspired by Psalm 150, the angels are represented playing modern musical instruments: a flute, a cello, a trumpet, and a pair of cymbals.[9] The three hundred pound plaster sculptures were modelled at Langley Prairie[3] and finished with five coats of shellac of varying colours.[7]

Woods stayed with the sculpture department of the Vancouver School of Art until 1954, and remained its school historian until 1969. During the latter year, he co-founded the Langley Community Music School.[5] Woods was a musician and composer. Some of his compositions included the folk opera Belbriggan Bay[10] and the ballad The Dancing Girls of Cariboo.[11] In 2005, he authored a book on Langley artist Carle Hessay, Meditations on the Paintings of Carle Hessay.[12]

Woods passed away on 6 September 2014, at the age of 94 in Langley, British Columbia.[4] [5] The following year, Kwantlen Polytechnic University conferred a posthumous honorary degree on him for his role as a co-founder of Langley Community Music School.[13] Three works by Woods are in the collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery.[14]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Woods, Leonard A.. ABC Bookworld. 12 August 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230812123322/https://abcbookworld.com/writer/woods-leonard-a/. 12 August 2023. live.
  2. Manitoba Vital Statistics Branch, birth registration number 1919-062083.
  3. News: City Sculptor Carves Church Figures. The Daily Province. Vancouver. 11 August 1948. 20. 12 August 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230812154001/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-province-leonard-a-woods-sculpture/65831381/. 12 August 2023. live. .
  4. Web site: Leonard Archibald Woods. British Columbia Artists. Sim Publishing. 11 August 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20220122090652/http://www.sim-publishing.com/bca/woodsla.htm. 22 January 2022. live.
  5. News: Langley Community Music School founder passes away. Langley Advance Times. 12 September 2014. 12 August 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230812125209/https://www.langleyadvancetimes.com/entertainment/langley-community-music-school-founder-passes-away/. 12 August 2023. live.
  6. Book: Imredy, Peggy. A Century of Sculpture. Sculptors' Society of British Columbia. Vancouver. 1998. 0-9684180-07. 11.
  7. News: Gellatly. Claire . Twentieth-Century Angels Startle Church-goers. The Vancouver Sun. 6 October 1948. 21 . 12 August 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230812142440/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-twentieth-century-ange/129860117/. 12 August 2023. live. .
  8. News: Artist's Work Featured in Sermon. The Province. Vancouver. 23 October 1948. 19. 12 August 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230812152423/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-province-artists-work-featured-in-s/126444165/. 12 August 2023. live. .
  9. Web site: Anglican's angel sculptures to be restored. 3 November 2004. Diocese of New Westminster. 2 September 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20220810195415/https://www.vancouver.anglican.ca/news/anglican%E2%80%99s-angel-sculptures-to-be-restored. 10 August 2022. live.
  10. News: Farewell Concert Enjoyed. Quesnel Cariboo Observer. 20 June 1963. C1. 12 August 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230812135812/https://www.newspapers.com/article/quesnel-cariboo-observer-farewell-concer/126444989/. 12 August 2023. live. .
  11. News: Danby concert drew 150 people. Langley Advance . 31 January 1979. 7 . 12 August 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230812140456/https://www.newspapers.com/article/langley-advance-dancing-girls-of-cariboo/126444448/. 12 August 2023. live. .
  12. News: Youssef. Marten. 24 Dec 2005. Leonard Woods documents the work of his longtime friend. Langley Times. Langley, British Columbia. 29 November 2020. . ProQuest. .
  13. News: LCMS founders to be granted honorary KPU degrees. Langley Advance Times. 15 April 2018. 7 June 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210607202903/https://www.langleyadvancetimes.com/entertainment/lcms-founders-to-be-granted-honorary-kpu-degrees/. 7 June 2021. live.
  14. Web site: Collections search: Leonard Woods. Winnipeg Art Gallery. 12 August 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230812132905/https://www.wag.ca/art/collections/search/?q=leonard+woods. 12 August 2023. live.

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