Lamar Dodd

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The painter Lamar Dodd was influenced by the Ashcan School movement, which emphasized scenes of everyday life. As one reviewer said of Dodd's first solo show in New York in 1932, his paintings, so consciously anti-academic, evoke "Georgia, Georgia, Georgia."

Courtesy of LaGrange College

Lamar Dodd

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