page_title: Frederick Clifford Dixon
section_title: Royal College of Art
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick Clifford Dixon / Royal College of Art
caption_attribution_description: English: Etching by Frederick Clifford Dixon
context_page_description: Frederick Clifford Dixon was notable for his etchings depicting urban life in London in an intricate, realistic and witty manner. His artistic career was cut short with the decline in the print market after the boom years of the 1920s. He then embarked on a career as an art teacher in order to make a living.
context_section_description: At the time Dixon was attending the RCA, William Rothenstein was principal, Malcolm Osborne RA was the Professor of Engraving and Job Nixon was Osborne's assistant lecturer and a winner of the Prix de Rome Scholarship in Engraving (1920).
  Dixon studied alongside some of the major figures in British early twentieth century printmaking, such as Edward Bawden, Eric Ravillious, Charles Tunnicliffe, a friend of Dixon, Marion Adnams, Evelyn Gibbs, Kenneth Holmes and Grace Golden. He graduated with fellow students Frederick Austin, Stanley Badmin, Enid Butcher, Ceri G. Richards and James Cresser Tarr.
  Dixon was encouraged by Rothenstein to become a professional artist but he decided that it was not the career for him; partly because the print market was already in decline having taken a 'fatal knock in the Great Crash of 1929' and partly because he felt that he produced work too slowly to make a decent living.
caption: Northern Town Etching by Frederick Clifford Dixon, 1928
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