At age 98, painter Lois Dodd celebrates her first major European retrospective at The Hague in the Netherlands. Open now through April 2026, Lois Dodd: Framing the Ephemeral reveals how this quintessentially American painter manages to imbue the quiet corners of everyday life with a sense of permanence, not unlike Vermeer. Dodd’s meditative approach to, as she explains, “finding and framing the everyday” gives the illusion that painting is easy. That illusion was built on decades of work created both in her New York studio and during summers painting en plein air at her home on the rugged mid-coast of Maine.
© Lois Dodd, courtesy Alexandre Gallery, New York.
Three Yellow Curtains Blowing, c. 1980, oil on Masonite, 16 1/4 x 18 3/4 inches.
