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Lois Dodd (*1927, Montclair, New Jersey) lives and works in Maine, Delaware Water Gap and New York City, USA. She studied textile design at Cooper Union in New York City, US (1945 – 1948). From 1971 to 1992, she taught at Brooklyn College and Showheagan Gallery.
In 1952, Lois Dodd founded Tanager Gallery with her former husband Bill King as well as the artists Angelo Ippolito, Charles Cajori and Fred Mitchel. Tanager Gallery became part of what is known as the 10th Street Galleries, which were co-operative galleries in New York’s East Village in the 1950s and 1960s. Dodd’s work was exhibited for the first time at Tanager Gallery in 1962.
Contrary to the dominant artistic trends of the time such as abstract expressionism, minimal art or pop art, Dodd developed her own specific visual language. Her oeuvre, whose motifs are mainly based on observations of landscapes, nudes and still lives, is neither impressionistic nor expressionistic, but verging on realism. Dodd is not a landscape painter in the classical sense, since she does not look at her subjects from a distance, but often from an intimate proximity, revealing complexity in apparent simplicity. Her paintings rarely depict entire scenes; instead, they are often cropped to show only one aspect of a landscape or a moment. For example, she precisely examines plants and flowers without lapsing into a botanical classification. Another recurring theme is the view from an inside to an outside, and the window as a screen of projection. Her works are never dazzling, pretentious or excessive. One possible interpretation of her work is that it contains a quiet critique of the relentless belief in progress, consumerism and possessiveness held by some of her contemporaries.
Lois Dodd has had numerous institutional solo exhibitions including at The Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont; Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion, Trenton, MJ; Ogunquit Museum of Modern Art, Ogunquit, Maine; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME. She has also been part of a variety of group exhibitions (selection): Hall Art Foundation, Derneburg Castle; Kanohah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; National Academy Museum and School, New York, NY; Visual Arts Center, Summit, New Jersey; Nassau County Museum of Arts, New York.
Collections (selection): Bowdoin College Art Museum, Brunswick, Maine, Brooklyn College of CUNY, New York; Bryn Mawr College Drawing Collection, Pennsylvania; Colby College Collection, Waterville, Maine; Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, New York; Dartmouth College Art Museum, Hanover, New Hampshire; Farnsworth Art Museum, Hanover, New Hampshire; Farnsworth Art Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee; Museo dell’Arte, Udine; Whitney Museum Print Collection, New York, New York.
Born / geboren in Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Lives and works / lebt und arbeitet in Maine, Delaware Water Gap and New York City, USA
Cooper Union, New York City, USA
2023
Upcoming: Retrospective survey, Kunstmuseum den Haag, Netherlands
“Lois Dodd: Natural Order,” Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
“Lois Dodd: Natural Order,” Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT
Lois Dodd | Natural Order, The Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont
Painting the Moon: Lois Dodd and Friends, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion, Trenton, NJ
Light of Day, Westbeth Gallery, New York
Lois Dodd, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lois Dodd/Shara Hughes, Parts and Labor, Beacon, NY
Lois Dodd, Adams and Ollman Gallery, Portland, OR
Modern Art, London
Lois Dodd: Flashings, Philipp Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin
Lois Dodd: Paintings and Drawings, Ogunquit Museum of Modern Art, Ogunquit, Maine
Lois Dodd: Flashings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd, National Arts Club, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Early Work, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Windows and Reflections, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Lois Dodd: Windows, OMI International Arts Center, Ghent, New York
Lois Dodd: Day and Night, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Recent Panel Paintings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Recent Paintings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Selected Panel Paintings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Catching the Light, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, travels to Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, 2013
Lois Dodd, University Galleries at CCSU, New Britain, CT
Lois Dodd: New Panel Paintings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Shadows, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Naked Ladies, Natural Disasters and Puzzling Events, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
Lois Dodd: Second Street Paintings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Fire, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Landscapes and Structures, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: A Retrospective, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
Lois Dodd: An Exhibition of 14 Works on Paper, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, Connecticut
Lois Dodd: Paintings and Drawings, Southern Methodist University, Pollock Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Lois Dodd: Paintings, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Lois Dodd: Recent Paintings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Works on Paper, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
Lois Dodd: A Pure Landscape, The Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
Four Seasons in Maine: Lois Dodd’s Small Plein-Air Paintings, Twentieth- Century Gallery, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Flashings: Small Paintings on Aluminum, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Small Paintings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Nudes in the Landscape, New York Studio School, New York, New York Traveled to: Banana Factory, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire and Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia
Windows and Doorways: Three Decades of Paintings, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Selected Small Paintings, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
Lois Dodd: Paintings, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York
Women at Work, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Lois Dodd: Mind the Gap, Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
The Woods: Selected Paintings from the 1970s, Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Flower Paintings, Fischbach Gallery, New York, New
Lois Dodd: Eclipse and Other Night Paintings, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
Lois Dodd: 25 Years of Painting, Organized by Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey and Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York; Traveled to Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; Trenton City Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, Connecticut
Big Work Little Work, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Painter’s Painting, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
Small Paintings: Flashings, Roundtop Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, Maine
Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd: Paintings- View of Windows and Doors, Rider College Gallery, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Anne Weber Gallery, Georgetown, Maine
Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Cape Split Place, Addison, Maine
Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut
Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Selected Paintings 1969-1979, Cape Split Place, Addison, Maine
Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Cape Split Place, Addison, Maine
Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
Thomas College, Waterville, Maine
Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
Lois Dodd and Sharif Farrag, Adams Ollman Gallery, Portland, Oregon, US
Lois Dodd and Shara Hughes, Parts and Labor, Beacon, NY, US
Für Barbara (bis), curated by Leo König, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg, Germany
Downtown Painting, curated by Alex Katz, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY
LandEscape: New Visions of the Landscape from the Early 20th and 21st Centuries, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Techniques of the Observer, Greene Naftali, New York, New York
Snow, Hal Brom Gallery, Hotel Fauchere, Milford PA
Lois Dodd and Roger Winter, National Arts Club, New York, New York
Cliché, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, New York
Summer Exhibition, Jack Henly Gallery, New York, New York
Painting Now and Forever Part III, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York
Inventing Downtown, Artist-run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York
2016 deCordova Biennial, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Sheldon Invitational, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
The Female Gaze, Part Two, Chiem & Read, New York, New York
2015 Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum and School, New York, NY
Women Who Choose Women Again, Visual Arts Center, Summit, New Jersey
Garden Party, Nassau County Museum Of Art, Roslyn, New York
Come Together: Surviving Sandy Year, Industry City, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York
Abstractions Masquerading as Landscape, Museum of Grand Junction, Colorado
Reflections- Zeuxis Exhibitions, Lindenwood’s J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts, St. Charles, MO
Garden As Muse, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Viewpoint, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Paint Box Leaves: The Autumnal Landscape from Cropsey to Wyeth, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
Long Long Gone, Leo Koenig, Inc., New York, New York
Here’s the Thing: Single Object Still Lifes, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
Art of the Gettysburg Review: Representation in Contemporary American Painting, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Night Vision: Printing Darkness, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut
Selected Work By Gallery Artists, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Five Landscape Paintings, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine
Fluid Fields, The Painting Center, New York, New York
The Maine Print Project: Celebrating 200 Years of Printmaking in Maine, Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
The Figure in American Painting and Drawing 1985-2005, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine
The Landscape of Golf, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
Got Cow? A Celebration of Bovine Bounty, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
The Long View: Selections from the Norma B. Marin Collection of Maine Art University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine
A Sense of Place: New Jersey, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey
100 New York Painters, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York
Water, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
Summer Landscapes, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
7th Annual Art Auction, National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York, NY
Transforming the Page: Lines, Washes, and Smudges, National Academy Museum, New York, New York, 2004-05
Watercolor, DFN Gallery, New York, New York
The Artist Eye, curator Wolf Kahn, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Artists Talk: Five Years, Lyme Academy, Lyme, Connecticut
Industrial Beauty, George Billis Gallery, New York, New York
Rockland Harbor, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
178th National Academy of Design Member Exhibition, New York, New York
Lyrical Landscapes, Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Holiday Salon, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, Connecticut
New York City: Some Different Views, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine
The Founding Five of Tanager Gallery, David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, New York
Selections, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, Connecticut
Plein-Air Paintings, C.W. White Gallery, Portland, Maine
Lois Dodd and Elizabeth O’Reilly, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Plein Air: Eric Aho, Lois Dodd, Emily Nelligan, Stuart Shils, Paesaggio Gallery, Canton, Connecticut
Invited, First Street Gallery, New York, New York
Remembering Rudy, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York
Recent American Portraits, Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
National Academy Members Exhibition, New York, New York
50’s – 60’s Selected Paintings, Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York
Animals, Animals, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York
Trees, Midtown Payson Gallery, New York, New York
46th Annual Academy – Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy- Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, New York
Men Working, G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, New York
45th Annual Academy – Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy- Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, New York
Through a Glass Darkly, First Street Gallery, New York, New York
The Maine Muse, Paesaggio Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut
44th Annual Academy – Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy- Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, New York
Recent Acquisitions, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
The Artist in the Garden, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
43rd Annual Academy – Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy- Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, New York
Forty-Second Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
165th Annual Exhibit, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
Voyages of the Modern Imagination, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
June Moon, Einstein Gallery, New York, New York
Landscapes, Greenwald and Marin, New Hope, Pennsylvania
Drawings From Life, Research Foundation, CUNY, New York
Contemporary Plein Air Landscape, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Vision and Tradition, Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey and Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Contemporary Nudes, 1 Penn Plaza, New York, New York
Landscape Anthology, Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York
The Face of the Land, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania
The Artist and the River, Kemerer Museum, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
American Art Today, The Portrait, The Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Director’s Invitational, Maine Coast Artist’s Gallery, Rockport, Maine
162nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
Paintings and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards, The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
Horse, Ammo, Brooklyn, New York
The Gathering of the Avant-Garde, the Lower-East Side 1948-1970, Kenkeleba House, New York, New York
Figural Art of the New York School: Selections from the Ciba-Geigy Collection, Baruch College Gallery, New York, New York
Green Mountain Retrospective, First Half, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
Masters of Classical Realism, Allen Preibe Gallery, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh
The Spirit of the Coast, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey
The First Eight Years, Artist’s Choice Museum, New York, New York
Works by Artists in the Historical Archives of the Women’s Interart Center of New York City, Philadelphia College of Art, Pennsylvania
Tanager Gallery, 1952-1962, Bueckner and Harpsichord, New York, New York
Painted Light, Artist’s Choice Museum, New York, New York, and tour
Painterly Realism, Rahr-West Museum, Manitowac, Wisconsin
Painterly Landscape, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey
Eight With Nature, Landmark Gallery, New York, New York
Image in Landscape: The Last Decade, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
Painterly Realism in America, A.J. Wood Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
American Realism, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia
Survey of Realism, Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Painterly Realism, Watson, deNagy Gallery, Houston, Texas
The Landscape: Different Points of View, Wave Hill, Riverdale, New York
Contemporary Landscapes: Broad Vista and Distant Perspectives, Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Virginia
Figurative Art in New York, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana
Ten Painters of Maine, Landmark Gallery, New York, New York
American Realists, Clark-Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Magic Circle, Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York
Brooklyn College Art Department- Past and Present 1942-1977, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, New York
Maine ’76, Maine State Museum, Augusta, Maine
Artists for Environment Exhibit, Walpack Center, New Jersey
Dodd, Gelber, Groell, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Works by Women from the Ciba-Geigy Collection, Michigan State University and University of North Carolina
The Eye of Woman, Hobart and William Smith, Geneva, New York
Annual Contemporary Painting Show, Randolph Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, Virginia
Soho and So, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Member’s Gallery Exhibition, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
New Images, Queens Museum, New York, New York
Childe Hassam Purchase Exhibition, American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
A Sense of Place, traveling exhibition to Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska
Twentieth Annual Exhibition, Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Maine
Women in the Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
The Mind’s Eye, Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York
Women Choose Women, New York Cultural Center, New York, New York
Ciba-Geigy Collection, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
New England Landscapes, Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont
Homage to the Tanager, Roko Gallery, New York, New York
Bowery Gallery, New York, New York
First Street Gallery, New York, New York
Painterly Realism, American Federation of Arts, traveled exhibition
Green Mountain Group, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
Drawings, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
Drawings, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Eighteen Painters, selected by Fairfield Porter, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Drawings and Watercolors, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Out of Doors Landscape, Kornblee Gallery, New York, New York
Tanager Group, American University, Washington, D.C.
Artisti Americani Residenti a Roma, Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy
Art USA, New York Coliseum, New York, New York
Stable Annual, Stable Gallery, New York, New York
Dodd-Katz, Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
The Accent Gallery, Lakewood, Maine
Pyramid Gallery, New York, New York
Bowdoin College Art Museum, Brunswick, Maine
Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, New York
Bryn Mawr College Drawing Collection, Pennsylvania
Colby College Museum, Waterville, Maine
Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, New York
Dartmouth College Art Museum, Hanover, New Hampshire
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Kalamazoo Art Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
Museo dell’Arte, Udine, Italy
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
National Academy of Design, New York, New York
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut
Whitney Museum Print Collection, New York, New York
Maine in America Award, Farnsworth Art Museum
Juried New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Exhibition
From Governors Island: The 2007 Alumni Exhibition
Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal, Artists’ Fellowship
Augustus St. Gaudens Distinguished Alumni Award, Cooper Union
Honorary Degree Old Lyme Academy
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Prize
National Academy of Design—Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Award
Cooper Union Distinguished Alumni Citation
National Academy of Design—Leonilda S. Gervas Award
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award
Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
Longview Foundation Purchase Award
Italian Government Study Grant
