Background
Dodd, Lamar was born on September 22, 1909 in Fairburn, Georgia, United States. Son of Francis Jefferson and Etta Irene (Cleveland) Dodd.
Dodd, Lamar was born on September 22, 1909 in Fairburn, Georgia, United States. Son of Francis Jefferson and Etta Irene (Cleveland) Dodd.
Student, Georgia School Technology, 1927. Student, Art Students League of New York, 1933. Doctor of Humane Letters, LaGrange College, 1949.
A.F.D., University Cahttanooga, 1959. Doctor of Fine Arts, Florida State University.
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. 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 as an artist in residence at University of Georgia in Athens in 1937, he became the head of the art department several years later.
Dodd 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.
Dodd became a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1954, and was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
Son of Francis Jefferson and Etta Irene (Cleveland) D. M. Mary Lehmann, September 25, 1930. 1 daughter, Mary Irene.