Lois Dodd
b. 1927·USA
Selected works · Additional works available upon request
·January Window, 1987
oil on masonite
22 × 12 in
Signed, titled and dated on reverse
Provenance
Private Midwestern Collection,
Private Collection, New York
About the Artist
Lois Dodd (b. 1927, Montclair, New Jersey) is an American painter associated with postwar New York and a sustained practice of observational painting. After studying at Cooper Union, she co-founded Tanager Gallery in 1952, one of the early artist-run cooperative galleries in New York. Dodd’s work is grounded in direct looking: windows, gardens, city views, interiors, and the landscapes of Maine and the Delaware Water Gap are reduced to clear, economical structures of shape, color, and light. A career survey, Lois Dodd: Catching the Light, opened at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in 2012 and traveled to the Portland Museum of Art in 2013. Her work is held by institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery.