Lamar Dodd collection, 1928-1996

Summary

Creator:
Dodd, Lamar
Date:
1928-1996
Extent:
86 Linear Feet (167 boxes, 3 volumes, 3 oversize folders)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Lamar Dodd collection, ms1296. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence is both business and personal and is arranged chronologically, while Business is arranged into several subseries by topic. These two series make up the majority of the collection. A small amount of personal material is also available, as well as roughly two dozen scrapbooks documenting several decades of Dodd's career, and a handful of audiovisual materials and art ephemera such as printing blocks.

Biographical / historical:

Lamar Dodd is a highly recognized artist from the state of Georgia and an advocate for the arts and a skilled administrator. His most visible legacy is the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. For fully two-thirds of the twentieth century, Lamar Dodd represented Georgia's visual arts community as administrator, teacher, and advocate, and as the most influential Georgia artist of his generation.

New Georgia Encyclopedia - Lamar Dodd (1909-1996) http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-975 (Retrieved November 17 2009)

Arrangement:

This collection has been roughly arranged into seven series: correspondence, business, personal, scrapbooks, audiovisual materials, printing blocks, and unprocessed.

Access and use restrictions

Restrictions:

Meet the Professor: Lamar Dodd recording is housed in the Media Archive: http://purl.libs.uga.edu/brown/har-ms1296/bmac-coll

Preferred citation:

Lamar Dodd collection, ms1296. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.