# Lamar Dodd artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/lamar-dodd/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:58:29.000Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1909-09-22
- Death date: 1996-09-26
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Lamar Dodd](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Jimmy_Carter_and_Rosalynn_Carter_-_With_Lamar_Dodd_and_Robert_Edge_-_DPLA_-_7175db7ea1d17cb6a32bb232d95614b3.jpg/1280px-Jimmy_Carter_and_Rosalynn_Carter_-_With_Lamar_Dodd_and_Robert_Edge_-_DPLA_-_7175db7ea1d17cb6a32bb232d95614b3.jpg)
President (1977-1981 : Carter). White House Staff Photographers. 1/20/1977-1/20/1981 · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimmy_Carter_and_Rosalynn_Carter_-_With_Lamar_Dodd_and_Robert_Edge_-_DPLA_-_7175db7ea1d17cb6a32bb232d95614b3.jpg

## About Lamar Dodd

Lamar Dodd (1909–1996) was an American painter and educator whose career joined studio practice with art teaching. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and IdRef consistently identify him and his lifespan, while VIAF describes him as both a painter and teacher. The collected biographical material connects his art with the American South and identifies him as the namesake of the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Collectors therefore encounter Dodd principally in twentieth-century American and Southern art contexts. The source pack does not establish a specific artistic movement, a complete career chronology, or named bodies of work, so such labels should not be added without stronger museum or scholarly documentation. Appraisily’s artist page also associates Dodd with a substantial set of auction records, making careful entity matching important when comparing works bearing his name or attribution.

## Common works and media

The collected sources identify Lamar Dodd primarily as a painter. Paintings connected with twentieth-century American and Southern art are therefore the best-supported work type for auction and appraisal matching. This source pack does not establish recurring use of a particular paint medium, nor does it document the frequency of drawings, prints, sculptures, editions, or named series; those classifications should be based on the individual object and stronger catalogue or museum evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by matching the artist’s identity to established Lamar Dodd authority records and then identifying the object’s actual work type and medium. The collected sources support painting as his principal category and connect his subject context with the American South. Appraisily auction records may help locate comparable lots, sale dates, and realized prices when sufficiently similar records are available. The present source pack does not include lot-level details about size, condition, provenance, inscriptions, editions, or auction-house attribution, so it cannot support a price prediction. Those object-specific facts should be documented separately before selecting comparables or reaching a value conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Identity evidence and market evidence are evaluated separately so that an authority match does not by itself imply attribution or value.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6480855
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500029450
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/52499846/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/184747619
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Dodd
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AF
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/lamar-dodd/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimmy_Carter_and_Rosalynn_Carter_-_With_Lamar_Dodd_and_Robert_Edge_-_DPLA_-_7175db7ea1d17cb6a32bb232d95614b3.jpg