A lifelong artist, Glenn Dodenhoff studied at the Art Center School in Los Angeles. He worked in the commericial art departments of Northrop Grumman and McDonnell Douglas. An award-winning painter, Dodenhoff was showing in Los Angeles galleries in the late 1950s and early 1960s during the height of the Abstract Expressionism movement. While equally adept at realism, he painted a masterful abstract language of color and form until his death. His art has been shown in exhibitions nationwide and is in government, private and corporate collections worldwide, including the Dare County Municipal Center in Manteo and the private collection of Norway's royal family.

His art still hangs side-by-side with paintings by his wife of 36 years, artist and musician, Lisa Cooper, who still lives in Buxton. Dodenhoff and Cooper moved to Hatteras Island in 1974 where they fished, tended garden, played guitar and sang, entertained, and enlightened friends and family with Glenn’s humor, keen intellect and thirst for truth.

Glenn passed away at the age of 76 at his home in Buxton on Nov. 8, 2012.