Frank Owen Dobson CBE was a British artist and sculptor and during his time was considered one of the best sculptors in Europe. He was a contemporary of Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore.
Dobson in 1953
The Balloon Apron (1918) (Art.IWM ART2001)
Woman and the Fish at Delapré Abbey, Northampton
An Escalator in an Underground Factory (1944) (Art.IWM ART LD 4142)
Sir Jacob Epstein was an American and British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1910.
Frank Dobson (sculptor)
…1886 – 22 July 1963) was a British artist and sculptor and during his time was considered one of the best sculptors in Europe. He was a contemporary of Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore. Dobson is now seen as one of the most important British sculptors of the 20th century…
1921 photograph by George Charles Beresford
A type of a laboring man from The Spirit of the Ghetto, 1902
Epstein's 1913 sculpture Rock Drill in its original form