Private
Phyllis Dodd
(1899 - 1995)
Portrait of Tirzah Garwood, 1929
Phyllis Dodd (1899 - 1995)
£9,500
Size:
Height – 25.4cm
Width – 35.5cm
1 in stock
The reclining figure in the portrait is Phyllis Dodd’s husband, Douglas Percy Bliss. Bliss became the Direc- tor of the Glasgow School of Art in 1946. Admiring the composition, Bliss produced an almost identical version of this painting in 1955.
Admiring the composition, Bliss produced an almost identical version of this painting in 1955.
Phyllis Dodd achieved considerable success from early on in
her prolific career. Studying at the Liverpool School of Art from
1917’21, she received a Royal Exhibition Scholarship and
attended the Royal College of Art for four years ‘ alongside Henry
Moore (1898’1986), Raymond Coxon (1896’1997) and Edna
Ginesi (1902’2000), with whom she would remain friends for the
rest of her life ‘ winning the Drawing Prize in her final year.
From 1925 to 1930 she taught part-time at Walthamstow
Technical College. In 1928, she married the artist Douglas
Percy Bliss (1900’1984) and they worked alongside each other,
exhibiting together at Derby Art Gallery in 1947. She also
exhibited at the NEAC, the RA, the RP, the Walker Art Gallery
and the RSA, and in 1989 the Hatton Gallery at Newcastle
University held a large retrospective exhibition to celebrate her
ninetieth birthday.
