The art world was slow to appreciate the American painter Lois Dodd, who remains active at the age of 98. Although her work is now in the collections of the Met, MoMA and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, it wasn’t until 2012, when she was 85, that she had her first solo museum show, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is putting on the first retrospective in Europe of her work, bringing together some 100 paintings, mostly from the 1960s and ’70s, to reveal how her patient observational style – tranquil paintings of the great outdoors and domestic interiors, mostly devoid of people – remained steadfast even as Abstract Expressionism and Pop were in the ascendant (30 August–4 January 2026). The Kunstmuseum has also commissioned a documentary about Dodd, which will be screening at the exhibition.
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