Lois Dodd

Vitae:

Born Montclair, New Jersey, 1927

Education Cooper Union, New York City, 1945-48  

 

Grants and Awards

2007 Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal, Artists’ Fellowship

2005 Augustus St. Gaudens Distinguished Alumni Award, Cooper Union

2004 Honorary Degree Old Lyme Academy

1991 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Prize

1990 National Academy of Design—Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Award

1987 Cooper Union Distinguished Alumni Citation

1987 National Academy of Design—Leonilda S. Gervas Award

1986 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award

1971 Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant

1962 Longview Foundation Purchase Award

1959-1960 Italian Government Study Grant

 

One-person Exhibitions

2007 Lois Dodd: Paintings and Drawings, Southern Methodist University, Pollack Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Lois Dodd: Paintings, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

2006 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

2005  Women at Work II: Drawings and Paintings, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine

2004 Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me

Nudes in the Landscape. Travelling to: Jaffe-Fried Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and Daura Gallery, Lynchberg College, Lynchberg, VA.

2003 Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York

Nudes in the Landscape, New York Studio School, New York, NY. Travelling to: Banana Factory, Bethleham, PA.

Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine, Selected Small Paintings

2002 Swarthmore Collect, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (2 Person)

2001 Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York

2001 Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine

2001 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

2001 Paesaggio Gallery, Canton, Connecticut

2000 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

1999 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

1998 Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine

1997 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

1996 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey

1996 Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

1996 Trenton City Museum, Trenton, New Jersey

1996 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

1995 Paesaggio Gallery, Canton, Connecticut Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine

1994 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

Painter’s Painting, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine

1993 Roundtop Center for the Arts, Damariscotta, Maine

1992 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York Rider College Gallery, Lawrenceville, New Jersey

1990 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

1988 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

1987 Anne Weber Gallery, Georgetown, Maine

1986 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

1984 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1983 Cape Split Place, Addison, Maine

1982 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

1981 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey

1980 Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

1979 Selected Paintings 1969-1979, Cape Split Place, Addison, Maine

1978 Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

1977 Colby College, Waterville, Maine Cape Split Place, Addison, Maine

1976 Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York

1974 Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York

1973 Thomas College, Waterville, Maine

1971 Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York

1970 Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York

1969 Green Mountain Gallery, New York, New York

1962 Tanager Gallery, New York, New York

1961 Tanager Gallery, New York, New York

1958 Tanager Gallery, New York, New York

1957 Tanager Gallery, New York, New York

1954 Tanager Gallery, New York, New York

 

Group Exhibitions

2007 Night Vision: Printing Darkness, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut

Real Time: Focus, Redefining the Painted Landscape, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, New York

Selected Work By Gallery Artists, Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York

2006 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 Landscaping, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, New York

Watercurrents 2006: The Figure, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, New York

The Landscape of Golf, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island

Got Cow? A Celebration of Bovine Bounty, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York

2005 A Sense of Place: New Jersey, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey

Pictures: Five Landscape Paintings, The University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine

100 New York Painters, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York

50th Anniversary Exhibition, Terrain Gallery, Aesthetic Realism Foundation New York, New York

Vermont Studio Center’s 20th Anniversary Benefit Auction, Sotheby’s, New York,   New York

Artists at Work, Paris, New York Kent Fine Art, Kent, Connecticut

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

Disegno: The 180th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York,  New York

7th Annual Art Auction, National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York, New York

Transforming the Page: Lines, Washes, and Smudges, National Academy Museum, New York, New York, 2004-05

2004 The Artist Eye, curator Wolf Kahn, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

WatercolorKouros Gallery, New York, NY

Lyme Academy , Lyme, CT

2003 Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME

Rocl;amd Harbor, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockalnd, ME

178th National Academy of Design Member Exhibition, New York, NY

MoveableFeasts: Contemporary Takes on Still Life, Zeuxis Group at Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY

Lyrical Landscapes, Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

Holiday Salon, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT

Watercolor, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY

2002 Lois Dodd and Elizabeth O’Reilly, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

1995 National Academy Members Exhibition, New York, New York

50’s – 60’s Selected Paintings, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY

Animals, Animals, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York

1994 Trees, Midtown Payson Gallery, New York, New York

46th Annual Academy – Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy-Institute of Arts & Letters, New York, New York

1993 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

1992 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

1991 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

1990 165th Annual Exhibit, National Academy of Design, New York, New York

Voyages of the Modern Imagination, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

1989 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

1988 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

1987 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

1986 Paintings and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards, The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York

1985 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

1984 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

1983 Works by Artists in the Historical Archives of the Women’s Interart Center of N.Y.C, 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

1982 Painterly Realism, Rahr-West Museum, Manitowac, Wisconsin Painterly Landscape, Jersey city Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey

1981 Eight With Nature, Landmark Gallery, New York, New York

1980 Image in Landscape: The Last Decade, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire

1979 Painterly Realism in America, A.J. Wood Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1978 American Realism, William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia

Survey of Realism, Sardoni Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Painterly Realism, Watson, DeNagy Gallery, Houston, Texas

The Landscape: Different Points of View, Wave Hill, Riverdale, New York, New York

Contemporary Landscapes: Broad Vista and Distant Perspectives, Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Virginia

1977 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

1976 Maine ’76, Maine State Museum, Augusta, Maine

Artists for Environment Exhibit, Walpack Center, New Jersey

1975 Dodd, Gelber, Groell, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas

1974 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

1973 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

1972 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

1971 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

1970 Bowery Gallery, New York, New York First Street Gallery, New York, New York

Painterly Realism, American Federation of Arts, traveling exhibition

Green Mountain Group, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

1967 Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York

1965 Drawings, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana

Drawings, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Eighteen Painters, selected by Fairfield Porter, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York

1964 Drawings and Watercolors, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1962 Out of Doors Landscape, Kornblee Gallery, New York, New York

1961 Tanager Group, American University, Washington, D.C.

1960 Artisti Americani Residenti a Roma, Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy

1959 Art USA, New York Coliseum, New York, New York

1958 Stable Annual, Stable Gallery, New York, New York

1953 Dodd-Katz, Tanager Gallery, New York, New York

The Accent Gallery, Lakewood, Maine

1949 Pyramid Gallery, New York, New York

 

Memberships

American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters 1998 to date

Colby College Museum Advisory Board 1990 – 1993

National Academy of Design 1988 to date

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Chairperson, Board of Governors 1986 – 1988

Board of Governors 1980 to date Board of Advisors, Artist’s Choice Museum 1977

Board Member, The Lower East Side Printshop, East 4th Street, New York 1972 – 1974

Chairperson, Cooper Square Community Development Committee 1972 – 1975

Artist’s Housing committee, Cooper Square 1962 – 1975

Tanager Gallery, a founder 1952 – 1962

 

Teaching

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont 1994

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 1971 – 1992

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1984

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine 1979

Queens College, Queens, New York 1969 – 1971

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 1965 – 1969

Wagner College, Staten Island, New York 1964 – 1965

Philadelphia College of Art, Pennsylvania 1962 – 1963