Biography
John Frederic Greenwood (b. Rochdale, UK 1885 - d. Ilkley, Yorkshire, UK 1954) studied at Shipley School of Art and Bradford School of Art as well as the Royal College of Art in London (1908 - 1911). Greenwood taught at Battersea, Bradford, and Leeds Schools of Art, and exhibited internationally. Four of his wood engravings of Wharfedale scenes were shown at the the First International Exhibition of Lithography and Wood Engraving, 1929, in Chicago. In 1921 his first wood-engraving was exhibited with the Society of Wood Engravers, but in 1926 he became involved with Gordon Craig's rival group, the English Wood Engraving Society with a number of other artists including Bliss, Hermes, Hughes-Stanton and Underwood. He illustrated Twenty-Four Woodcuts of Cambridge and A Short History of Ely Cathedral (1954), and his prints were included in several compilations on the subject of the modern woodcut craft.
