Frances Farrand Dodge

Frances Julia Farrand Dodge (22 November 1878 – 12 January 1969) was an American artist and teacher.

Frances Farrand Dodge
Born(1878-11-22)November 22, 1878[1]
Lansing, Michigan
DiedJanuary 12, 1969(1969-01-12) (aged 90)
Easton, Talbot, Maryland
Alma materSyracuse University
Known forPaintings and Illustrations

Early life and education

The eldest of four girls, Frances Farrand was born on 22 November 1878 in Lansing, Michigan. Her father, Hart Augustus Farrand (1850–1938), had a grocery store in Lansing and her mother, Effie Ann Shank (1854–1918) was an accomplished wood carver who created much of the furniture for their home.

She studied art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the Michigan State University, Syracuse University, and the Art Students League of New York. Among her teachers were Frank Duveneck, Lewis Henry Meakin, and Joseph Pennell.[1][2][3]

In 1907 she married Arthur Charles Dodge (1880–1969) in Lansing, Michigan.[4] The couple moved to Chicago, where she received specialized training in watercolor with Frederic Milton Grant (1886–1959), a student of William Merritt Chase.[5]

Career and legacy

In the 1920s Dodge lived in St. Paul, Minnesota and Ohio,[lower-alpha 1] where she continued studying with Herman Henry Wessel (1878–1969).

In 1920 she was appointed president of the Cincinnati Art Club.[6]

In 1921, she won the second prize in the Fine Arts Competition at the Minnesota State Fair. In 1926 and 1927 she exhibited "Danberry County Fair" and "A wood" at the Exhibitions of Etchings organized by the Chicago Society of Etchers and the Art Institute of Chicago.[7][8]

She exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy, and the National Association of Women Artists.[9]

In 2011 the Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame in Lansing featured works by her from their own collection in Selected Works from the Michigan Women’s Historical Center Art Collection.[10]

In 2014 Olivet College, in Michigan included her in an exhibition of overlooked female painters titled "Beautiful Things: Still Life Paintings by American Women 1880–1940.[11][lower-alpha 2]

Her works can be found in private collections and at the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[12] the Mobile Museum of Art,[13] the University of Nebraska State Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum,[14] the Academy Art Museum (Easton, MD),[15] and the Cincinnati Art Galleries.[16]

Notes
  1. The catalogue of the 115th annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts of 1920 in Philadelphia, where she presented "The old Canal" (No. 354, p. 57), shows her address at No. 3 Haydock, Grandview Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio (p. 78). The following year she contributed with "A Hill Town" (No. 158, p. 32) and her address was "Care of Fairbanks, Morse & Company, St. Paul, Minnesota" (P. 90).
  2. Along Farrand Dodge's, there were paintings by others whose life experiences were similar, such as Alice Hagerman Thurber (1871 Birmingham, Michigan – 1952 Highland Park, Wayne, Michigan), Maud Miller Hoffmaster (1883 Manistee, Michigan – 1969 Traverse city, Michigan), Minnie Harms Neebe (1873 Chicago, Illinois – 1936), and Julia A. Collins Stohr (1866 Toledo, Ohio – 1947 New York).

References
  1. "Francis Farrand Dodge". Mary Ran Gallery - Shop. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  2. Smith, Jeanette (September 24, 2014). "Pavilion Street, Mount Adams". JAMA. 312 (12): 1180–1181. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.279741. PMID 25247498. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  3. Robert L. Crump (2009). "Minnesota Prints and printmakers 1900–1945". Book Minnesota Historical Society Press.
  4. "Frances Farrand Dodge - Biography". www.askart.com. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  5. "Sylvan Lake by Frederick Milton Grant". Taylor Graham. Retrieved 2021-05-07."Frederick Milton Grant". Artcyclopedia. Retrieved 2021-05-07."Frederick Milton Grant, Early 20th Century, Above the Pacific Coast". 1stdibs.com, Inc. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  6. The MAC Record, a publication by the Michigan Agricultural College Association, East Lansing, Michigan, Vol XXV, May 21, 1920, p. 7: "Paintings of Frances Farrand Dodge"
  7. "Catalogue of an exhibition of etchings" under the management of the Chicago Society of Etchers February 4 to March 12, 1926. Chicago Society of Etchers. pp. 19 and 40.
  8. "Catalogue of an exhibition of etchings" under the management of the Chicago Society of Etchers February 3 to March 8, 1927. Chicago Society of Etchers. pp. 18 and 40.
  9. "Zaidan Gallery". www.zaidan.ca. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  10. "Mich. women's history center opens art exhibit Sunday" (Press release). Associated Press. August 4, 2011.
  11. "Beautiful Things: Still Life by American Women Artists, 1880-1940". tfaoi.org. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  12. "Frances Farrand Dodge | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
  13. "Beaumaris Art Group Studios, Artists Catalogue". Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  14. "Explore the Collection". Cincinnati Art Museum.
  15. "Academy Art Museum-Easton, MD". Academy Art Museum.
  16. "Frances Farrand Dodge". Cincinnati Art Galleries.

Sources
  • "Annual Report of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society", Minnesota State Agricultural Society, 1923, p. 196
  • "The MSC Record", Volume 32, Issues 1 to 12, 1926, p. 14
  • R. R. Bowker: "Who's who in American Art", Volume 9, American Federation of Arts, 1953
  • "The Alpha Phi Quarterly", Volume 66, Issue 2, 1954, p. 166
  • "Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution", Smithsonian Institution, 1959, p. 99
  • Bell Shank Farrand Rahn: "Childhood Memoirs by the Four Farrand Girls" and "The Farrand House", 1961.
  • "Tidewater Times" Vol. 10 No. 10, March 1966.
  • Robert L. Crump: "Minnesota Prints and printmakers 1900–1945" p. 82, Ed. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009.
  • Julie Aronson, Anita J. Ellis, Jennifer Howe: "The Cincinnati Wing: The Story of Art in the Queen City", 2003, P. 210
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