Frederick Clifford Dixon

Frederick Clifford Dixon (5 December 1902 – 5 May 1992) was notable for his etchings depicting urban life in London in an intricate, realistic and witty manner.

He taught in schools in the next four decades in Morecambe Bay, Ashton-under-Lyne, Altrincham and finally Cheshire Council Training College in Alsager until 1963.

He graduated with fellow students Frederick Austin, Stanley Badmin, Enid Butcher, Ceri G. Richards and James Cresser Tarr.

[11] This etching was chosen by Sir Muirhead Bone, along with other the work of other notable printmakers of the day, including Stanley Anderson, C R W Nevinson, Job Nixon and William Strange RA, for display on the walls of the banking hall of Williams Deacon's Bank Limited, West End Office 9, Pall Mall, S.W.1.

[14]A recent exhibition at the Aberystwyth University School of Art Gallery (30 November 2015 – 15 January 2016) featured not only thirteen of Dixon's own etchings of British urban and rural life but also twenty-three prints by his contemporaries which he acquired by exchange or gift.

Included in the acquisition were a number of his etchings and preparatory drawings for Regents Street (1927) and Putney Hill (1926) and a pencil portrait of Ceri Giraldus Richards made in the mid-1920s.