Northern Lights and Stars, Cushing

Lois Dodd, American, born 1927

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1990

Oil on aluminum

Overall: 5 × 6 7/8 in. (12.7 × 17.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Elinor Bunin Munroe, Class of 1943W

© Lois Dodd

P.990.46.1

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Scratched, by artist, on reverse: Dodd / Sat. Sept 22, 1990 / Dartmouth NH / Northern Lights and Stars / Cushing

Course History

SART 31, SART 72, Painting II, Painting III, Jennifer Caine, Fall 2013

SART 31, 72, Painting II, III, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2019

SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/Painting III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2019

SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/III, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2020

ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022

GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022

ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022

ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022

ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022

ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022

ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022

SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022

Studio Art 31.01/72.01, Painting II/III, Jen Caine, Winter 2023

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jen Caine, Spring 2023

Exhibition History

This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–July 22, .2022

Publication History

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.76, no.52.

Provenance

The artist, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1990.

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