Dobson, Frank (1889-1963)

English sculptor and painter. His works are usually heavy-limbed nudes and portrait busts, such as Sir Osbert Sitwell (1923; Tate Gallery, London).

Beginning as a painter working in the post-Impressionist idiom, Dobson soon turned to sculpture, his early works showing the strong influence of Vorticism. He later developed a sleekly contoured classicism inspired by the French sculptor Aristide Maillol.