Frances Farrand Dodge

Frances Julia Farrand Dodge (22 November 1878 – 12 January 1969) was an American artist and teacher.

Early life and education
The eldest of four girls, Frances Farrand was born on 22 November 1878 in Lansing, Michigan. Her father, Hart Augustus Farrand (1850–1938), had a grocery store in Lansing and her mother, Effie Ann Shank (1854–1918) was an accomplished wood carver who created much of the furniture for their home.

She studied art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the Michigan State University, Syracuse University, and the Art Students League of New York. Among her teachers were Frank Duveneck, Lewis Henry Meakin, and Joseph Pennell.

In 1907 she married Arthur Charles Dodge (1880–1969) in Lansing, Michigan. The couple moved to Chicago, where she received specialized training in watercolor with Frederic Milton Grant (1886–1959), a student of William Merritt Chase.

Career and legacy
In the 1920s Dodge lived in St. Paul, Minnesota and Ohio, where she continued studying with Herman Henry Wessel (1878–1969).

In 1920 she was appointed president of the Cincinnati Art Club.

In 1921, she won the second prize in the Fine Arts Competition at the Minnesota State Fair. In 1926 and 1927 she exhibited "Danberry County Fair" and "A wood" at the Exhibitions of Etchings organized by the Chicago Society of Etchers and the Art Institute of Chicago.

She exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy, and the National Association of Women Artists.

In 2011 the Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame in Lansing featured works by her from their own collection in Selected Works from the Michigan Women’s Historical Center Art Collection.

In 2014 Olivet College, in Michigan included her in an exhibition of overlooked female painters titled "Beautiful Things: Still Life Paintings by American Women 1880–1940.

Her works can be found in private collections and at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Mobile Museum of Art, the University of Nebraska State Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Academy Art Museum (Easton, MD), and the Cincinnati Art Galleries.