Katharine Rhoades
Katharine Nash Rhoades (1885 or 1895[1][2] -1965) was an American painter, poet and illustrator born in New York City. She studied with Robert Henri and the Veltin School for Girls in New York, with Isabelle Dwight Sprague-Smith (1861 - 1950) and with Marion H. Beckett and Malvina Hoffman in Paris.
Rhoades was a contributor to Camera Work a quarterly journal published by Alfred Stieglitz and 291, an arts and literary magazine. She, along with Agnes Ernst Meyer and Marion Beckett were known as "the Three Graces" in the Stiglitz art circle where, among things, they served as models for photographs by Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, paintings by Steichen, caricatures by Francis Picabia, drawings by Marius de Zayas, and paintings by Arthur B. Carles. Marsden Hartley remembered Rhoades and Beckett as being “both six feet, beautiful and always together“.[3] In 1915 she became associated with Charles Freer in the creation of the Freer Gallery in Washington D.C.. In 1937 she co-founded a religious library now part of the Ball duPont Library at University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.[4]
Armory Show of 1913
Rhoades was one of the artists who exhibited at this landmark show. The show included one of her oil paintings, Talloires, ($400).[5]
References
- ↑ Brown, Milton W., ‘’The Story of the Armory Show’’, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 284
- ↑ Dwight, Edward H., forward ‘’1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1963’’, Henry Street Settlement and the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, New York, 1963 p. 203
- ↑ http://search.proquest.com/docview/734722358
- ↑ Petteys, Chris, ‘’Dictionary of Women Artists’’, G K Hill & Co. publishers, 1985
- ↑ Brown, Milton W., ‘’The Story of the Armory Show’’, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 284