Lamar William Dodd (American, Georgia, 1909 to 1996)
Born in rural Georgia, Lamar Dodd studied locally and then at the Art Student’s League and with famed American artists George Luks and John Steuart Curry. Returning to the south in 1933, Dodd became a proponent of American regional art, calling for local artists to paint the local scenes, landscape and people. While a professor of art at the University of Georgia, Dodd exhibited regionally and nationally with the Southern States Art League, Alabama Art League, National Academy of Design, Corcoran Gallery and National Arts Club. A reviewer of his 1932 solo exhibition in New York City wrote of Dodd’s approach as being “Georgia, Georgia, Georgia.”
In the late 1940s, Dodd discovered the isolated beauty of Monhegan Island, located ten miles off the Maine coast. Accessible only by boat, the quaint picturesque village had become a summer haven for artists.
Information courtesy of Neal Auction Company, October 2004 & December 2007.