London, Caplan Gallery, An Exhibition of Sculpture by Leon Underwood, 1961 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 31);
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Sculpture by Leon Underwood, October – November 1962 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 19);
London, Caplan Gallery, Sculpture by Leon Underwood, 1963 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 38);
Colchester, The Minories, Leon Underwood: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1969 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 27);
Woking, The Lightbox, 2D:3D – Discover the Art of Sculpture: Sculpture & Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 1 February – 1 March 2008;
London, Sotheby’s, Sculpture and Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 10 – 21 January 2011;
Woking, The Lightbox, Bodies! The Ingram Collection, 21 November 2015 – 31 January 2016;
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, 23 October 2016 – 8 January 2017;
Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Reflection: British Art in an Age of Change, 17 August 2019 – 5 January 2020
Literature:
Ben Whitworth, The Sculpture of Leon Underwood, Lund Humphries, 2000 (p. 131, no. 101)
A prolific painter, draughtsman and sculptor, Underwood was also a scholar and writer, and a popular teacher whose students included Henry Moore. He travelled widely, and was one of the earliest British artists to appreciate indigenous art and primitive cultures, writing books on ancient African sculpture. Not surprisingly, he produced bronzes in an array of different styles, on this occasion combining modern angles and the simplified shapes of primitive carving to create an erotically charged sculpture.
