lois dodd
Born in 1927 in Montclair, New Jersey, Lois Dodd is known for her deceptively casual landscapes, figure studies, and floral studies, as well as for her interior and exterior scenes. She studied art and textile design at The Cooper Union in New York in the late 1940s under the aegis of Peter Busa and Byron Thomas. In the early 1950s, Dodd also lived in Italy with her then-husband, the sculptor William King. She was one of the five founding members of the Tanager Gallery in 1952, among the first of the artist-run cooperative galleries in downtown New York. From the 1970s to the 1990s, Dodd taught at both Brooklyn College and at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, Maine, where she is a Governor Emerita.
After discovering Maine and plein-air painting during a summer session at Skowhegan Dodd began spending her summers in the midcoast region of Penobscot Bay. Dodd currently lives in New York and works in Maine and New Jersey. Among her many honors are an Italian Study grant; a Longview Foundation purchase; and an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant. Dodd’s works are in private, corporate, and public permanent collections throughout the United States, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and The Cooper Union in New York City, as well as the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, and Colby College, Waterville, Maine.
