Frances Julia Farrand Dodge (22 November 1878 – 12 January 1969) was an American artist and teacher.
Early life and education
The eldest of four girls, Frances Farrand was born on 22 November 1878 in
Lansing, Michigan. Her father, Hart Augustus Farrand (1850–1938), had a grocery store in Lansing and her mother, Effie Ann Shank (1854–1918) was an accomplished wood carver who created much of the furniture for their home.
In 1907 she married Arthur Charles Dodge (1880–1969) in Lansing, Michigan.[4] The couple moved to
Chicago, where she received specialized training in watercolor with Frederic Milton Grant (1886–1959), a student of
William Merritt Chase.[5]
Career and legacy
In the 1920s Dodge lived in
St. Paul, Minnesota and
Ohio,[a] where she continued studying with Herman Henry Wessel (1878–1969).
She exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy, and the National Association of Women Artists.[9]
In 2011 the Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame in Lansing featured works by her from their own collection in Selected Works from the Michigan Women’s Historical Center Art Collection.[10]
In 2014
Olivet College, in
Michigan included her in an exhibition of overlooked female painters titled "Beautiful Things: Still Life Paintings by American Women 1880–1940.[11][b]
^The catalogue of the 115th annual exhibition of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts of 1920 in Philadelphia, where she presented "The old Canal" (No. 354, p. 57), shows her address at No. 3 Haydock, Grandview Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio (p. 78). The following year she contributed with "A Hill Town" (No. 158, p. 32) and her address was "Care of Fairbanks, Morse & Company, St. Paul, Minnesota" (P. 90).
^Along Farrand Dodge's, there were paintings by others whose life experiences were similar, such as Alice Hagerman Thurber (1871 Birmingham, Michigan – 1952 Highland Park, Wayne, Michigan), Maud Miller Hoffmaster (1883 Manistee, Michigan – 1969 Traverse city, Michigan), Minnie Harms Neebe (1873 Chicago, Illinois – 1936), and Julia A. Collins Stohr (1866 Toledo, Ohio – 1947 New York).
^The MAC Record, a publication by the Michigan Agricultural College Association, East Lansing, Michigan, Vol XXV, May 21, 1920, p. 7: "Paintings of Frances Farrand Dodge"
^"Catalogue of an exhibition of etchings" under the management of the Chicago Society of Etchers February 4 to March 12, 1926. Chicago Society of Etchers. pp. 19 and 40.
^"Catalogue of an exhibition of etchings" under the management of the Chicago Society of Etchers February 3 to March 8, 1927. Chicago Society of Etchers. pp. 18 and 40.