Street Carnival
Artist
Lamar Dodd
(American, 1909 - 1996)
Datec. 1938
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 16 1/2 × 30 1/2 inches (41.9 × 77.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase.
Object number1941.2
On View
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Copyright© Estate of Lamar Dodd.
The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextGeorgia native Lamar Dodd studied architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology before moving to New York to pursue a career as a painter. He enrolled at the Art Students League and took private classes with painter George Luks. In 1937, he was invited to join the faculty of the University of Georgia, where he spent more than three decades developing the university’s art department. Dodd’s work demonstrates the influence of American Scene painters such as John Steuart Curry, but his focus on dark, industrial landscapes links his work to that of the urban realist painters of the Ashcan school.