Two red curtains

© Lois Dodd / Licensed by VAGA at ARS, NY

Two red curtains

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Two red curtains,

1980

Lois Dodd, born 1927, Montclair, NJ; active Cushing, ME, Blairstown, NJ, and New York, NY
2019-179
Over the course of a seven-decade-long career, Dodd has developed a practice of observational painting, much of it done outdoors. This grounding in nature allows her works to achieve a delicate balance between landscape and abstract compositions, as in these four watercolor sketches of laundry drying in the breeze that present evocative studies of each day’s atmosphere and a variation of formal elements.
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Artist Conversation: Lois Dodd and Eve Aschheim

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Information

Title
Two red curtains
Dates

1980

Maker
Lois Dodd
Medium
Watercolor over graphite
Dimensions
22.2 × 28.6 cm (8 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the artist
Object Number
2019-179
Place Made

North America, United States, New York, New York

Signatures
Signed and dated in graphite, lower right: Dodd '80
Inscription
In graphite on verso at upper right: 2 [in circle] L.D.
Culture
American
Type
drawings, watercolors
Materials
graphite, watercolor, wove paper
Subject
linens, rope, curtains

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