Katharine Rhoades

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Katharine Rhoades, 1915, photographed by Alfred Stieglitz
Artist group around Alfred Stieglitz at Mount Kisco in 1912 (from left to right): Paul Haviland , Abraham Walkowitz, Katharine Rhoades, Emmy Stieglitz, Agnes Meyer, Stieglitz, John Barrett Kerfoot and John Marin

Katharine Nash Rhoades (born November 30, 1885 in Springfield , Ohio , † October 26, 1965 in New York City ) was an American painter , poet , illustrator and feminist .

Live and act

Katharine Nash Rhoades was the daughter of the banker Lyman Rhoades (1847-1907) and Elizabeth Nash (1856-1919). She had an older brother and a younger brother, Lyman and Stephen Nash Rhoades.

Rhoades attended the Veltin School for Girls in Manhattan , where she studied art with Isabelle Dwight Sprague-Smith . When she was 19 years old, she took her first private art class. From 1908 she traveled to Paris with the sculptor Malvina Hoffman and the painter Marion Beckett , where she studied art until 1910.

In 1913, Rhoades exhibited her oil painting Talloires at the New York Armory Show , the modern art exhibition, and became known to a wider audience. Her landscape painting fetched $ 400.

In 1911 she returned to New York, where she met the influential photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz , with whom she had an intense friendship for many years. The two artists were particularly interested in the unconscious. With the journalist Agnes Ernst Meyer and the painter Marion Beckett, Rhoades became known as "the three graces" of the Alfred Stieglitz art circle. They were the models for the photographs by Stieglitz and Edward Steichen as well as for the drawings and paintings by Marius de Zayas and Arthur Beecher Carles. The American painter Marsden Hartley describes Rhodas and Beckett as both six feet, beautiful and always together ("both six feet tall, beautiful and always together").

In 1914, Rhoades and Beckett exhibited modern art at the National Arts Club at Gramercy Park . In the following year, the artists designed a joint exhibition in Stieglitz ' Gallery 291 . It was here that Rhoades exhibited her avant-garde paintings for the first time , which were similar to those of Henri Matisse and the Fauvists . Rhoades burned many of her paintings, which were made before the 1920s and which contained elements of Cubism . Her works helped Dadaism to emerge.

Rhoades wrote texts and poems in the quarterly specialist magazine Camera Work , which was published by Stieglitz from 1903 to 1920. She also worked as an editor for the art and literature magazine 291 , which was published in New York City from 1915 to 1916.

Rhoades, who from 1913 secretary of Charles Lang Freer had been, was in his will for life trustee of the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington appointed. Agnes and Eugene Meyer were appointed further curators of the gallery, which opened in 1923 . Agnes and Eugene Meyer gave their daughter Katharine Rhoades' first name, who later married Philip Graham and became the editor of the Washington Post . Rhoades was in 1937 co-founded a religious library that part of today Ball duPont Library at the University of the South in Sewanee ( Tennessee is).

It is believed that Rhoades had a relationship with Stieglitz, but it cannot be ruled out that it was a one-sided interest before he fell in love with Georgia O'Keeffe . Rhoades and Stieglitz remained good friends, and she lived with other members of his circle at Stieglitz's summer residence on Lake George, New York . O'Keeffe said she always found Rhoades to be a "wonderful person" that she had always valued. This appreciation was mutual.

Rhoades had an affair with Arthur Beecher Carles.

She died on October 26, 1965 and was buried with her parents and other family members in the Hillside Burial Cemetery in Sharon, Connecticut .

Web links

Commons : Katharine Rhoades  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Jules Heller, Nancy G. Heller: North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary . Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-1-135-63889-4 , pp. 467 ( google.com [accessed May 2, 2019]).
  2. ^ Harsen-Rhoades Family Papers: Manuscripts and Special Collections: New York State Library. Retrieved May 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ William Innes Homer: Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-garde. Secker & Warburg, London 1977, p. 313.
  4. ↑ Katharine Nash Rhoades , National Portrait Gallery , accessed May 5, 2019.
  5. ^ Robert Henri, Marian Wardle, Sarah Burns, Brigham Young University Museum of Art: American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945 . Rutgers University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8135-3684-2 , pp. 223 ( google.com [accessed May 2, 2019]).
  6. ^ Milton W. Brown: The Story of the Armory Show . Ed .: The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation. 1963, p. 284 .
  7. ↑ a b "The Part Played by Women": "The Gender of Modernism at the Armory Show. Retrieved May 2, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Denise Mahoney: Rhoades, Katherine Nash . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 98, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023263-9 , p. 368.
  9. ^ Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life . UPNE, 1999, ISBN 978-0-87451-906-8 , pp. 105 ( google.com [accessed May 2, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Katherine Hoffman: Goldfinch: A Beginning Light . Yale University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-300-10239-0 ( google.com [accessed May 3, 2019]).
  11. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York NY), Magdalena Dabrowski: Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe: the Alfred Stieglitz Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011, ISBN 978-1-58839-433-0 ( google.com [accessed May 4, 2019]).
  12. ^ Cary Nelson: Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945 . Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-299-12344-4 ( google.com [accessed May 3, 2019]).
  13. ^ Carol Felsenthal: Power, Privilege, and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story . Seven Stories Press, 1999, ISBN 978-1-888363-86-9 ( google.com [accessed May 4, 2019]).
  14. ^ Carol Felsenthal: Power, Privilege, and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story . Seven Stories Press, 1999, ISBN 978-1-888363-86-9 ( google.com [accessed May 4, 2019]).
  15. ↑ Katharine Graham: Personal History . AA Knopf, 1997, ISBN 978-0-394-58585-7 ( google.com [accessed May 4, 2019]).
  16. ^ Nancy Signorielli: Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook . Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-29164-7 ( google.com [accessed May 4, 2019]).
  17. ↑ Chris Petteys: Dictionary of Women Artists . An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900. GK Hall & Co, 1985, ISBN 978-0-8161-8456-9 (English).
  18. ^ A b Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life . UPNE, 1999, ISBN 978-0-87451-906-8 ( google.com [accessed May 4, 2019]).
  19. ^ Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz: My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 . Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-300-16630-9 ( google.com [accessed May 4, 2019]).
  20. ^ Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz: My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 . Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-300-16630-9 ( google.com [accessed May 4, 2019]).
  21. ^ Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz: My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 . Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-300-16630-9 , pp. 147 ( google.com [accessed May 4, 2019]).
  22. ^ Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz: My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 . Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-300-16630-9 , pp. 612 ( google.com [accessed May 4, 2019]).
  23. ↑ 25 Sep 1983, p. 650 - The Philadelphia Inquirer at Newspapers.com. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
  24. ^ List of burial sites on the Hillside Burial Ground. (XLS) Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rhoades, Katharine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rhoades, Katharine Nash (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, poet, illustrator and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Springfield , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1965
Place of death New York City