Dahlov Ipcar was born in Vermont in 1917, the daughter of artists William and Marguerite Zorach. She grew up in Greenwich Village spending many summers on the Maine coast.  Maine provided a contact with nature which would leave a lasting impression on Ipcar.  In 1936, Ipcar and her husband settled in Robinhood in Georgetown, Maine. In 1937 Ipcar was both the first woman and the youngest person in history to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. An award-winning illustrator and author of over thirty books, as well as a prolific and accomplished painter. Ipcar studied at Oberlin College, and received honorary degrees from the University of Maine, Colby College and Bates College.  She had several solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Farnsworth Museum.

Ipcar’s artwork is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Smithsonian  American Art Museum, Washington DC; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; as well as several museums in Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Maryland.