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Dawson attended school through the 5th grade. When he married he moved to Chicago. He worked in a produce market and later as a security guard. Upon retirement he began whittling. In 1976 Susann Craig saw a display of his art and arranged a show of his work at Columbia College.
Dawson worked with any found wood. His subject matter was taken from people to buildings to animal, real and imagined. Dawson painted with acrylic on cardboard. He was included in the 1982 “Black Folk Art in America: 1930-1980” exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC in 1982.
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