This book is the first monograph on the paintings of Lois Dodd.
Through extensive studio visits and interviews, Faye Hirsch considers the processes, places and impulses behind Dodd\'s paintings and reveals her outwardly peaceful, reflective canvases to be the product of an alert and forceful eye and a powerfully efficient execution..
They are curiously timeless.
Dodd\'s works capture the intangible character of changing seasons or particular hours of day in locations throughout New York City, rural New Jersey and Maine, but the paintings betray no mark of era.
She is widely admired as a \'painter\'s painter\' whose landscapes and city scenes display subtle effects of place, light and weather within graphically distilled compositions.
Beginning in the 1950s, Lois Dodd has steadfastly pursued her observational painting, remaining aloof from passing trends.
Emerging from the shadow of Abstract Expressionism, Dodd and this circle cleaved to an observational painting based in the early modernist tradition.
It provides invaluable analysis and contextualisation of her work alongside such New York City contemporaries as Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and other denizens of the Tenth Street milieu of the 1950s.
This book is the first monograph on the paintings of Lois Dodd
