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Lois Dodd\u2019s early paintings<\/a> (1958\u201366) are showing at Alexandre Gallery through March 18. Dodd, who is eighty-nine, helped to found New York\u2019s artist-run Tanager Gallery in the fifties, when it was one of a series of downtown spaces\u00a0redefining how work was shown and sold. She said of her paintings in 2012, \u201cThey could be much more descriptive, but I don\u2019t want to do that<\/a>. In that sense, one always puts the blame on the abstract painters. That\u2019s what I looked at and loved. I don\u2019t want to get too descriptive. You can go so far and stop. I can just feel when to stop.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lois Dodd, Cows and Clouds<\/i>, 1961, oil on linen, 33 1\/2″ x 39 1\/2″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Apple Tree<\/i>, 1964, oil on linen, 55″ x 74″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Apple Tree<\/i>, 1966, oil on linen, 42″ x 34″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Figure in Landscape<\/i>, 1963, oil on linen, 23″ x 25 1\/2″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cows in Landscape<\/i>, 1958, oil on linen, 44″ x 51″.<\/p><\/div>\n

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