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Signed Peggy Williams Dodds, ‘Young African American Woman Wearing a Plumed Hat’. Pastel on Paper
Peggy Williams Dodds (American, 1900 – 1987), ‘Young African American Woman Wearing a Plumed Hat’. Pastel painting on paper. Framed in original moulding. Signed Peggy Dodds lower left. Undated, though believed to be circa 1940’s.
Peggy Dodds was an american artist known for her figurative and genre works. She studied at the collegiate university in paterson, new jersey and the art students league in new york under Yasuo Kuniyoshi and H. Mattson. She was a member of the national association of women artists, the new jersey watercolor cub, the modern art society of new jersey, the woodstock art association, and the american artists professional league. In a review of an exhibit she had at Argent Galleries in new york, a critic commented: ‘Young as this artist is she seems to weave into her work haunting memories of past lives, a yearning for the romance running through the album of her imagination.’ (Art Digest, Nov. 1, 1937)
Sight – 30 1/2" high x 22" wide. Frame: 38" high x 29 1/2" wide.
Condition: Very good. Frame having wear commensurate with age
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