In the early 1950s, Lois Dodd, a prominent member of the post war art scene in New York, was a founding member of the noted Tanager Gallery in the city; she was the only woman among the group, which included Philip Pearlstein, Angelo Ippolito, and Charles Cajori. Soon after, along with a group of New York Modernists, including Alex Katz, Neil Welliver, and others, she discovered mid coast Maine. Enticed by the landscape and light, as well as rambling farmhouses and endless wooded areas, she has spent a good deal of her life there. Dodd chooses to create most of her small paintings en plein air, close to her country house, finishing each work before the light has had a chance to change.

Rowe’s Place gives us her vision of the home in Washington, Maine, of her dear friend and artist Anne Ayvaliotis (1925-2016). It demonstrates Dodd’s closeness with those artists who have come to call Maine home, and to call one another friend. Indeed, Dodd gifted this painting of Anne’s house to Anne, bringing full circle their abiding connection.