 Lamar Dodd collection
Collection DescriptionHistorical NoteLamar 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) Scope and ContentCorrespondence 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. Organization and ArrangementThis collection has been roughly arranged into seven series: correspondence, business, personal, scrapbooks, audiovisual materials, printing blocks, and unprocessed. Administrative InformationConditions Governing AccessMeet the Professor: Lamar Dodd recording is housed in the Media Archive: http://purl.libs.uga.edu/brown/har-ms1296/bmac-coll Preferred CitationLamar Dodd collection, ms1296. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries. Related Materials and SubjectsSubject Terms | ||||||||||||||||||