Frank dobson sculptor biography

Frank Owen Dobson [commonly known as Frank Dobson] was.
Frank Owen Dobson CBE RA (18 November 1886 – 22 July 1963) was a British artist and sculptor and during his time was considered one of the best sculptors in.
Born in 1886, in London, Frank Dobson had come to sculpture relatively late in his artistic development.

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Frank Dobson British, 1886-1963

From 1902 to 1904 Frank Dobson worked as an assistant to William Reynolds-Stephens. He then spent two years in Cornwall, earning his living with landscape watercolours, before winning a scholarship to Hospitalfield Art Institute, Arbroath, where he studied 1906–10.

After returning to London, he continued his studies at the City and Guilds School, Kennington, then again lived in Cornwall, where he shared a studio with Cedric Morris in Newlyn. His early work consisted mainly of paintings, the few surviving examples showing how impressed he was by Roger Fry's Post-Impressionist exhibitions. He made his first carving in 1913, but his first one-man exhibition - at the Chenil Gallery, London, in 1914 — consisted of paintings and drawings. After the First World War (when he served in France with the Artists' Rifles), he turned increasingly to sculpture, and had his first one-man exhibition as a sculptor in 1920, at the Leicester Galleries, London.

During the 1920s and 1930s Dobson gained an outstanding reputation: in 1

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A sculptor in stone, bronze, wood and terracotta of figure subjects, Dobson trained at Leyton School of Art and completed his study at the City and Guilds School in Kennington. As well as a sculptor, he was a noted draughtsman and watercolourist. His first solo show was staged at the Leicester Galleries in 1921. Dobson was President of the London Group between 1924 and 1926 and his Torso in wood, exhibited at a London Group exhibition, prompted The Architects' Journal to write: 'Small, compact, with a self-contained sweep of the arms closing about and hiding head and breasts, this Torso lives with a vehement life of indescribable charm. Carved in wood, lissom, strong, and taut, it stands there, as one of the very best things in the exhibition; and I for one, should I ever back a winner, would buy the thing at once, so mighty is my love of it.' In the 1920s and 1930s Dobson was an important member of the British avant garde, and with Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Jacob Epstein, he represented to Britain and the world what was best and most advanced in British sculpture. In 19

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Professor Frank Dobson was a leading British sculptor, specialising in the human form. The son of an artist, Dobson was educated at the Harrow Green School and, after showing a leaning towards drawing, was sent to the Leyton Technical School. He spent his spare time in the studio of sculptor William Reynolds-Stephen, watching him at work. After winning a scholarship, which took him to Arbroath in Scotland, Dobson returned to England to complete his training at the City and Guilds School in Kensington, London.

After college, Dobson began as a painter and draughtsman, and exhibited for the first time in 1914. He saw service during World War I as a lieutenant with the Border Regiment, and after the hostilities concentrated on developing his sculpturing skills. In the 1920s, Dobson was one of six European sculptors chosen to exhibit in the United States. He also contributed to leading exhibitions all over the world including London, Paris, Venice, Stockholm and Tokyo.

Dobson was elected an associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1938 and in 1953 was admitted into the