Leon
ca. 1920
19th-20th century
7 1/4 in. x 11 in. (18.42 cm x 27.94 cm)
Francis Dodd,
Welsh,
(1874–1949)
Object Type:
Prints
Medium and Support:
Etching on paper
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection, gift of Gerard R. Pomerat on behalf of Dr. Charles M. Pomerat
Accession Number:
1997.113
Francis Dodd pursueed his interest in art at the Galsgow School of Art and in 1904, moved to London, where he worked as a painter, printmaker, and served as Trustee of the Tate Gallery (1928-35). Over the active years of his career (1907-1938), Dodd produced over two hundred etchings and drypoints, mostly of architectural subjects or portraits. Leon depicts the side exterior of a French Romanesque and Gothic hybrid cathedral. In this print, which recalls the aesthetic attitudes of John Taylor Arms, the architecture looms large, dwarfing the people and diminishing landscape to a few insignificant strokes.