Passion & clarity

Joseph Jeffers Dodge was trained as an art historian and museum administrator at Harvard University before accepting his first job as curator of the Hyde Collection in Glens Fall, New York. At the same time, he began actively painting and exhibiting his work. In 1962 Dodge was invited to take the director's position at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, a position he held for ten years before making a full-time commitment to painting.