Brook Green School

In May 1919 Leon Underwood purchased a studio at 12 Girdlers Road, Hammersmith and within two years he had set up a School soon to become known as the Brook Green School of Art. It offered full-time and some evening classes and his teaching stressed the importance of life drawing. By 1923 he had installed an etching press and embarked on two years of constant activity in printmaking as well as his normal subjects. Underwood's pupils included Henry Moore, Eileen Agar, Gertrude Hermes, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Vivian Pitchforth, Raymond Coxon, Barbara Hepworth, Edna Ginesi, Mary Groom, Agnes Miller-Parker and Nora Unwin. The School closed in 1938.