Sculptor.

Biography

1900-02 Studied at Leyton School of Art

1902-04 Worked as apprentice studio boy to the sculptor Sir William Reynolds-Stephens

1904-06 Painted in Cornwall

1906-10 Won a scholarship to study at Hospitalfield Art Institute, Arbroath, Scotland

1910-12 Continued his studies at City and Guilds School, London

1913-14 Shared a studio in Cornwall with the painter Cedric Morris

1914-18 Served in the Artists' Rifles

1920 exhibitied with Wyndham Lewis's Group X

1924 Elected President of the London Group. Represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and again in 1932

1926 Appointed Professor of Sculpture at Royal College of Art, London

1947 Awarded C.B.E. Awarded C.B.E.

1953 elected R.A.

Bibliography

1981 Robert Hopper, True and Pure Sculpture: Frank Dobson, 1886-1963, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

1994 Neville Jason, The Sculpture of Frank Dobson, Henry Moore Foundation/Lund Humphries

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1911 Chenil Galleries, Chelsea, London

1940 Bristol City Museum

1966 Frank Dobson, Memorial Exhibition, Arts Council Gallery, London

1981 True and Pure Sculpture, Arts Council, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, and tour

1982 Frank Dobson, Drawings and Carvings, Anthony d'Offay, London

1985 Frank Dobson,Drawings & Small Sculpture,Gillian Jason Gallery, London

1994 Frank Dobson Selected Sculpture 1915-1954, The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Leeds, touring to The Courtauld Institute, London

Frank Dobson, Sculpture and Drawings, Jason & Rhodes, London