Bowdoin College Museum of Art | - Female Nude on Stomach

Preview image of work. pencil and colored chalk (pastel) on paper, Female Nude on Stomach - with Heater 32890

2017.7.1

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Female Nude on Stomach - with Heater

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Artist

Lois Dodd (Montclair, New Jersey, 1927 - )

Title

Female Nude on Stomach - with Heater

Creation Date

1972

Century

mid-20th century

Dimensions

19 x 25 3/16 in. (48.26 x 63.98 cm)

Object Type

drawing

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

pencil and colored chalk (pastel) on paper

Credit Line

Gift of the Artist

Copyright

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Accession Number

2017.7.1

In the early 1970s Lois Dodd was part of a group of artists, including Mercedes Matter and Philip Pearlstein, who met periodically in the studios of different friends around New York City to draw hired models. Dodd explained recently that Female Nude on Stomach—with Heater, 1972, Female Nude Seated on Yellow Green Sofa, 1974 and Female Nude Slumped on Blue Sofa, 1974 all part of Bowdoin's Collection are essentially the only works of their kind, as she rarely worked in pastel or represented the figure. In these three works, she employs a tight composition, as the figure’s limbs are seen extending past the frame. By using colored paper, she needs only a few expressive marks in pink, orange, and yellow to communicate the form. Though her primary subject since the 1950s has been the land, sky, and built structures, these drawings share her enthusiasm for vibrant color and bold forms.