Wilton, CT – Janice Mae Dolan, 86, celebrated Impressionist painter, passed peacefully on Dec. 24, 2025 after a courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
A 1956 graduate of Peterborough High School, she was a standout athlete in basketball and swimming, and excelled in music and art before pursuing art at UNH.
Jan was a painter of the third generation of the Boston School, mentored in the tradition of the French Academy and Boston School by painter Sidney F. Willis.
The only Peterborough native to become a MacDowell Colony fellow, Jan also received fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; and the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, Brandenburg, Germany. She was a member of the Copley Society, Boston, MA, the Allied Artists of America, and the National Society of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.
Her accolades include awards from the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, The National Arts Club in New York, Bellas Artes in Guadalajara, The Guild of Boston Artists, the Ruth & James Ewing Arts Award in Keene, NH, The Artists’ Magazine and Southwest Art. Her paintings hang in numerous private collections, and have exhibited in many galleries and museums. One of Dolan’s larger works, an impressionist marshscape, graces the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services in Concord, NH.
With her husband Taylor, Jan traveled and painted extensively throughout the United States, Mexico, the UK, Europe, India, and the far east. She taught painting and portraiture at Franklin Pierce University and the Sharon Arts Center, and led private classes.
Jan was predeceased by her parents, William and Edna Dolan of Peterborough, by her husband Edgar Taylor Morris II (1923-2017), a professor and writer at Franklin Pierce University, and by her children’s father James Wozmak (1938-1986) of Jaffrey, NH.
She is survived by her children: Michael Wozmak and wife Heidi Copeland of Peterborough, NH, David Wozmak of El Cerrito, CA, and Lisa Penny and husband Philip of Ridgefield, CT; five stepchildren: Charlotte, Taylor III, Jack, Lucy, and Beverly Morris; and 18 beloved grandchildren and great-grandchildren, many extended family members and friends whose lives she touched.
A celebration of her life will be held on May 9, 2026, with details forthcoming.
To view Jan’s full obituary, share a memory, or to leave the family a message of condolence, please visit Jan’s tribute page at www.jellisonfuneralhome.com
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