Lamar Dodd was a 20^th century American artist, the long-term director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, and an arts advocate raised in LaGrange, Georgia. In the late 1970s after serving as a cultural emissary to the U.S. Department of State and as an artist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dodd explored the complexities and mysteries of cardiac surgery. The result of this artistic inquiry was The Heart Series, a profound collection of more than 50 works of art that explore the medical sciences and cardiothoracic surgery. This article reviews Dodd’s artistic career and explores the ability of the visual arts to communicate scientific content and capture the transcendent elements of medical intervention. Special attention is paid to the unique relationship Dodd shared with his hometown community in LaGrange, the Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center, Robert Copeland (founder and long-term director of the Copeland Heart and Vascular Center at the Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center), and local philanthropist, Fuller E. Callaway, Jr.

^{拉马尔·多德 (Lamar Dodd} ) 是 20世纪的美国艺术家，乔治亚大学拉马尔·多德艺术学院的长期院长，以及在乔治亚州拉格朗日长大的艺术倡导者。1970 年代后期，在担任美国国务院的文化使者和美国国家航空航天局 (NASA) 的艺术家之后，多德探索了心脏手术的复杂性和奥秘。这次艺术探索的结果是心系列，收藏了 50 多件探索医学和心胸外科的艺术作品。本文回顾了多德的艺术生涯，并探讨了视觉艺术传达科学内容和捕捉医学干预的超然元素的能力。特别关注 Dodd 与他在拉格兰奇的家乡社区、Wellstar West Georgia 医疗中心、Robert Copeland（Wellstar West Georgia 医疗中心 Copeland 心脏和血管中心的创始人和长期主任）之间的独特关系，以及当地慈善家 Fuller E. Callaway, Jr.