Information AboutLamar Dodd |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT LAMAR DODD | |
| 1909 births | |
| 1996 deaths | |
| georgia institute of technology alumni | |
| university of georgia faculty | |
| american painters | |
| people from georgia u.s. state | |
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Born in Fairburn, Georgia to Rev. Francis Jefferson Dodd and Etta Cleveland ( Ed Dodd , creator of the Mark Trail Comic Strip , was his first cousin), and reared in LaGrange, Georgia , Dodd trained in the South, including a short stay at Georgia Tech in Atlanta . He taught art in Alabama before traveling to New York City to study under advocates of the Ashcan School of painting as well as to gain a Nativist perspective from the paintings of artists such as Thomas Hart Benton . He returned to Birmingham, Alabama determined to champion local art. Over a long and productive career his styles encompassed Naturalism and Expressionism and extended to Abstract Art . Dodd was also a university teacher and administrator. Appointed to the faculty of the University Of Georgia in 1937, he consolidated art instruction into a unified department and initiated a master's degree program. The Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia is named in his memory. |
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