Lois Dodd - Faye Hirsch

This Monograph On The Paintings Of Lois Dodd 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. Emerging From The Shadow Of Abstract Expressionism, Dodd And This Circle Clung To A Realism Based In The Early Modernist Tradition.beginning In The 1950s, Lois Dodd Has Steadfastly Pursued Her Observational Painting, Remaining Aloof From Passing Trends. 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.