Over a long and productive career his styles encompassed naturalism and expressionism and extended to abstract art.
Appointed as an artist in residence at the University of Georgia, in Athens, in 1937, he became the head of the art department several years later.
Dodd consolidated art instruction into a unified department and initiated a master's degree program.
The Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia is named in his memory.
In 1958 his painting Cathedral Number 1 was acquired for the collection at Lehigh University by prominent alumnus Ralf Wilson after it was shown in a contemporary art exhibition curated by Francis J.