Lois Dodd: Maine Master

Lois Dodd was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1927. She first visited Maine in 1951 with friends Jean Cohen, Alex Katz and then husband sculptor William King, all of whom attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She settled into her current summer/fall home on the Cushing peninsula in 1961 and has created a remarkable body of work that blends abstraction and representation. Her images are intimate, poetic, fresh and full of character. Curator Susan Larsen wrote that her paintings have "a sense of grandeur and simplicity that is the essence of the Maine experience." Dodd's canvases feature flowers and plants, nudes and landscapes. Her distinctly modernist mode reaches its fullest expression in paintings of windows. "Lois Dodd: Maine Master" includes a rich and varied sampling of these paintings accompanied by the artist's personal take on art and life. See www.mainemasters.com for more information about this series of documentaries on Maine-related artists.

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discovered Lois' work about 8 years ago....only to find out all of the shapes in nature I was seeking, Lois' had explored many years back.......I guess she is my new art teacher!...beautifully made video, Richard Kane!

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