A portrait miniature artist and dioramist, John Wood Dodge was born in New York City where he lived in the early part of his career. He was primarily self taught although he had some training from a... Read full biography
A portrait miniature artist and dioramist, John Wood Dodge was born in New York City where he lived in the early part of his career. He was primarily self taught although he had some training from a sign painter. In New York, he was a member of the National Academy. In 1839, suffering ill health,... Read full biography
A portrait miniature artist and dioramist, John Wood Dodge was born in New York City where he lived in the early part of his career. He was primarily self taught although he had some training from a sign painter. In New York, he was a member of the National Academy. In 1839, suffering ill health, he moved to Southern states and lived as an itinerant, basing himself for ten years in Nashville, Tennessee. There Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay were among his portrait sitters. Among the places he... Read full biography
A portrait miniature artist and dioramist, John Wood Dodge was born in New York City where he lived in the early part of his career. He was primarily self taught although he had some training from a sign painter. In New York, he was a member of the National Academy. In 1839, suffering ill health, he moved to Southern states and lived as an itinerant, basing himself for ten years in Nashville, Tennessee. There Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay were among his portrait sitters. Among the places he traveled were Central Kentucky and New Orleans, Louisiana, 1848 and 1849, where he exhibited in the Armory Hall a series of dioramas including View of New York City and Interior of St. Peter's Church of Rome. In 1849, he moved to Huntsville, Alabama... Read full biography
A portrait miniature artist and dioramist, John Wood Dodge was born in New York City where he lived in the early part of his career. He was primarily self taught although he had some training from a sign painter. In New York, he was a member of the National Academy. In 1839, suffering ill health, he moved to Southern states and lived as an itinerant, basing himself for ten years in Nashville, Tennessee. There Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay were among his portrait sitters. Among the places he traveled were Central Kentucky and New Orleans, Louisiana, 1848 and 1849, where he exhibited in the Armory Hall a series of dioramas including View of New York City and Interior of St. Peter's Church of Rome. In 1849, he moved to Huntsville, Alabama where he established an apple ranch and by 1862 was back in New York City where he remained for many years. In 1886, he was living in Highla... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (16)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
American Miniatures Schwarz-Philadelphia Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Schwarz, Robert D. (Intro)
20 pages (color)
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen
1983
Poesch, Jessie
384 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860 (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)