years before the next major retrospective of his work was held, in 2015 at the Pallant House Gallery. This lack of attention has been attributed to the range and versatility of Underwood's output which, across the various media he worked in, lacked a common recognisable style that was easy to promote and also to his, sometimes, complex and esoteric philosophies and theories on art. Underwood was married to Mary Coleman. They first met in 1911 at the Royal College of Art, married in 1917 and their first child was born in 1919. They had two sons, Garth (a zoologist) and John, and one daughter, Jean. Public commissions Tempera mural for Shell canteen London, 1954 Relief panel for Commercial Development Building Old Street, London, 1955 Reredos, side chapel and stained glass window, St Michael and All Angels, New Marston, Oxford, 1955 Bronze candlesticks and crucifix Ampleforth Abbey, 1958. Selected publications Animalia. Payson and Clarke, 1926. The Siamese Cat. Brentano's, 1928. The Red Tiger, 1929, by Phillip Russell, illustrated by Underwood, an account of their joint travels in Mexico. Art for Heaven's Sake: Notes on a Philosophy of Art, 1934 Figures in Wood of West Africa. Alec Tiranti, 1947. Masks of West Africa. Alec Tiranti, 1948. Bronzes of West Africa. Alec Tiranti, 1949. Bronze Age Technology in Western Asia and Northern Europe, 1958. Museums and public collections Public collections holding works by Underwood include the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (39 works) the Tate Gallery, London (8 works) the National Portrait Gallery, London, (4 works) the Ingram Collection, The Lightbox, Woking (2 works) the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, archive of 206 drawings and sketches the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford the National Museum Cardiff (two works) the British Council Collection, London, (five works) Hammersmith and Fulham Archives (15 works) The Victor Batte-Lay Trust Collection at The Minories (two works) The Brooklyn Museum (three works) Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum (six works) the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds hold archives of Underwood's correspondence and other material. Exhibitions Leon Underwood, Mexican Wood engravings. St George's Gallery, 1928 Leon Underwood, Mexican watercolours. St George's Gallery, 1929 Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings and Engravings by Leon Underwood. Leicester Galleries, 1934 Sculpture in the Home. Arts Council, 1946 Leon Underwood. Beaux Arts Gallery, 1953 Bronzes and Wood Engravings by Leon Underwood. Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1973 Leon Underwood, Mexico and After. National Museum of Wales, 1979 Modern British Sculpture.