Lois Dodd

Day Window (Red Curtain)
Day Window (Red Curtain), 1972

b. 1927 · USA

About Lois Dodd

Lois Dodd (born 1927) is an American painter and educator. She studied at Cooper Union from 1945 to 1948 and in 1952 co-founded Tanager Gallery, an artist-run cooperative on East 10th Street. Her work is rooted in direct observation of places she knows in New York, midcoast Maine, and near the Delaware Water Gap, with recurring subjects including windows, buildings, gardens, woods, and changing weather. Dodd taught at Brooklyn College from 1971 to 1992 and served as resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1979.

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Lois Dodd (born 1927) is an American painter and educator. She studied at Cooper Union from 1945 to 1948 and in 1952 co-founded Tanager Gallery, an artist-run cooperative on East 10th Street. Her work is rooted in direct observation of places she knows in New York, midcoast Maine, and near the Delaware Water Gap, with recurring subjects including windows, buildings, gardens, woods, and changing weather. Dodd taught at Brooklyn College from 1971 to 1992 and served as resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1979.