Attributed to Lamar William Dodd, it does not have a COA. Medium: watercolor paper. 34 x 28 inches. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1909 - 1996. A painter in styles ranging from realism to symbolic abstraction and a distinguished,much respected art educator, Lamar Dodd appears to be the state of Georgia's most recognized artist of the mid to late 20th century. He had a career centered in that state, although his education and some of his painting assignments, such as being an official artist for the National Aerospace Program, took him far beyond his home town of Athens. There at the University of Georgia, he was professor and chairman of the art department, now named the Lamar Dodd School of Art.Lamar Dodd was born in Fairburn, Georgia in 1909 and was raised in LaGrange, Georgia. When he was twelve, his obvious art talent led to his acceptance as a special student at LaGrange College, then named LaGrange Female College. Studying for five years, he received a degree from the College at the same time he graduated from high school.He then enrolled briefly at the Georgia Institute of Technology, 1926-1927, and spent time teaching in rural Alabama. However, he quickly realized that if he was going to advance his talents, he needed to get out of the South and go to an art center. In 1928, he began studies in New York City at the Art Students League with George Bridgeman and Boardman Robinson, and also took private lessons with George Luks and Charles Martin. Recalling the teaching of Luks and his espousing of social realism underscored by a sombre palette, Dodd said that his influence was that of painting in monotones. Later Dodd, reacted by launching into a much more colorful palette including the injection of gold and silver leaf, which provided highlighting and religious symbolism.Dodd increasingly painted circular shapes over a straight line, fascinated by the contrast and by the unity of that which was nearly circular and to him suggested the sun and the moon. One of his paintings with this motif is "The Crucified Sun", a title he chose for the deep intense background against silver leaf, which turns green when exposed to the air. Of this he said the work could either make one feel angry or happy, but either way he viewed it as powerful---possibly it is the earth, sun, moon or just a big 'oneness'. Former President Jimmy Carter has the painting hung by his desk at the Carter Center in Atlanta.

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