TWO NEW R.A.’s.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19765, 21 December 1935, Page 19 (Supplement)

TWO NEW R.A.’s.

GUY DAWBER AND FRANCIS DODD WORK FOR RURAL ENGLAND E. Guy Dawber, A.R.A., the architect and Francis Dodd, A.R.A., the painter, have been elected Royal Academicians. Mr Dawber is well known for Ids 'country house work, and tiis speciality is laying out and designing gardens. Lliile president of the Royal Institute of British Architects he identified himself with tlie formation of Hie Council for Ihe Preservation of Rural England. The late .Sir Frank Dicksee, when president, of Iho Royal Academy, said of him, that “no man had done more to save Mi is country from putty, brass, and paint.” He is a vigorous opponent of the defacement of the countryside by tho erection of advertisement hoardings ! and the likej Mr Dodd lias Iwo well-known works in I lie Talc Gallery—“. Smiling Woman” ami “Miss Macro." During the war he made drawings of all the chief generals and admirals for the National Portrait Gallery;,