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The Great Wave

Lamar Dodd

What if religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water - the rivers, lakes, and oceans?

The Yellow Skirt

Seashell Dune

MWW Artwork of the Day (12/27/16) Lamar Dodd (American, 1909–1996) Bargain Basement (1937) Oil on canvas, 46 x 55 in. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta GA

This painting, often hailed as one of Dodd's masterpieces, was painted during the artist's brief residency in Birmingham, Alabama. The painting depicts the bottom floor of Pizitz Department Store, formerly located on 20th Street. Dodd had in mind Silvia Pizitz, one of the daughters of the store's founder, when he painted the blonde woman on the far left.

The subject matter of this painting suggests the influence of American Scene painting on Dodd's work. American Scene artists, who worked in the 1920s and 1930s, depicted aspects of American life in a naturalistic and descriptive way. Dodd was one of Georgia's best known American Scene painters and a strong proponent for painting Southern subject matter.