Norton Townshend Dodge (June 15, 1927 – November 5, 2011) was an American economist and educator who amassed one of the largest collections of Soviet-era art outside the Soviet Union.
Dodge first traveled to the USSR in 1955, ostensibly to study tractors as part of his research for a PhD from Harvard University.
[3] Dodge appears in an Andrei Zagdansky documentary Vasya (2002) about a Russian Nonconformist artist Vasily Sitnikov.
The Dodge Collection includes work by Russian painter Irina Nakhova, who in 2015 was selected as the first female artist to represent Russia in a solo show in its pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Dodge purchased Cremona, a 750-acre former slave plantation in Mechanicsville, Maryland on the west bank of the Patuxent River, in 1966.