Phyllis Dodd
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Chester, Cheshire, England
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Phyllis Dodd | |
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| Born | 10 November 1899 Chester, Cheshire, England |
| Died | 17 May 1995 (aged 95) Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England |
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Phyllis Dodd (10 November 1899 – 17 May 1995) was a British portrait painter; her husband was the artist and art teacher Douglas Bliss.
Dodd was born in Chester in 1899, the daughter of Charles and Harriet Dodd.[1] An early interest in art was encouraged by her parents.[1] In 1909 she won a Royal Drawing Society prize.[1] She was educated at The Queen's School, Chester.[2] In her last year at The Queen's School she gained a full certificate of the Royal Drawing Society.[3]
Art education
Dodd's mother took in paying guests in order to be able to send her to Liverpool School of Art from 1917 to 1921, where she was taught by the influential art teacher William Penn.[1] In 1921 Dodd won a Royal Exhibition to the Royal College of Art from 1921 to 1925.[1] She won the Drawing Prize in her final year.[4]
Career
Sir William Rothenstein was the principal throughout Dodd's time at the Royal College of Art, and she obtained portrait commissions through him.[1] From 1925 to 1930 Dodd taught at Walthamstow Technical College.[1]
Dodd and her husband, Douglas Percy Bliss, exhibited together at Derby Art Gallery in 1946,[5] and at St Michael's Gallery in Derby in 1983.[6] She also exhibited at the NEAC, the Royal Academy, the RP, the Walker Art Gallery, and the RSA.[4] Retrospectives were held at the Hatton Gallery at Newcastle University in 1989,[4] and, in the year of her death, at Derby Art Gallery[7] and Newport Museum & Art Gallery.[8]
