Anke Dodson

Anke E. Dodson is a native of Germany and a naturalized citizen of the United States. She is a resident of Tulsa.

Her work includes cityscapes, landscapes and marine subjects.

She enjoys working in the style of contemporary or painterly realism on a variety of surfaces, including watercolor canvas, aquabord, claybord, yupo, ricepaper and, of course, traditional watercolor papers.

She has studied painting in watercolor and pastels with nationally-known artists and instructors Steven Quiller, Alan Flattman, Naomi Brotherton, Judy Betts, Christopher Schink, among others. In recent years she has added the art of printmaking, more specifically monotypes. Taking a workshop taught by renowned printmaker Julia Ayers made her want to learn more about this unique medium and its possibilities.

In June of 2011 she was invited by the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa to teach an introductory monotype workshop in conjunction with their "Rauschenberg at Gemini" exhibition. A solo exhibition at the Gallery of the Performing Arts Center in Tulsa in October 2011 included 24 monotypes, portraying the change of seasons on the prairie.

The Community National Bank of Kansas commissioned her to paint historical works for seven of their branch offices. The large portraits of these communities are now on exhibit in their respective cities.

Watercolor USA has juried her paintings into their 2017, 2018 and 2021 shows and she was inducted into the Watercolor USA Honor Society as a signature member.

Dodson's work has been added to a number of corporate and private collections in the U.S., Germany and France. She has completed many commissioned pieces, including the design for the 2022 Tulsa Oktoberfest poster for the City of Tulsa River Parks Authority.

The Gaylord-Pickens Museum | Oklahoma Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City has included her paintings in their spring 2023 exhibition of Oklahoma–centered works.

Dodson is currently represented by the Royce Myers Gallery and the John Favell/Villa Grace Gallery, both in Tulsa, and her work also can be found in the virtual galleries of the Oklahoma Visual Artists Coalition and the Tulsa Artists Guild (TAG).