MC 4 Daniel Rhodes

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Faculty

Box 1

Acquisition: Bruce Connolly, Summer 1990 Processed: Elizabeth Gulacsy

Updated: Laura Habecker, 2020

Box 14-15

Acquisition: ??

Processed: Laura Habecker, 2020

The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Scholes Library

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Daniel Rhodes

(1911-1989)

Born: May 8, 1911, Fort Dodge, Iowa

Died: July 23, 1989, Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, Nevada Married: Lillyan Rhodes, died in 1986

second wife, the former Mary Beth Coulter Children: a son, Aaron, of Boston

a daughter, Lorna, of Seattle Education:

1929-1930 1929-1933 1932-1933 1933-1934 Summer 1940 1941-1942

Fort Dodge Junior College

Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, Summer Sessions under: Norma Rice and Viola Norman

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Ph.B. (Art History) Stone City Art Colony, Stone City, Iowa, Summer Sessions under: Grant Wood

Art Students League, New York, New York under: John Stewart Curry

Mexico

Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado under: Boardman Roberson and Arnold Blanch

New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, Alfred, New York MFA awarded 1943

Works:

1936-1938 1939-1940

1941-1942 1942 1943

Blanden Gallery, Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Art Student’s Workshop, Des Moines, Iowa

Ottumwa Art Center, Ottumva, Iowa (Guest Instructor) Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa (Adjunct Lecturer) Iowa Art Project, Des Moines, Iowa (Assistant Director) Glidden Pottery, Alfred, New York (Designer)

War Relocation Authority, Cody, Wyoming

Research in high heat ceramics for Henry J. Kaiser Corporation, San Jose, California

Studio at Menlo Park, California, production thrown and cast ware for Gumps Department Store in San Francisco, California 1946 Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

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1946-1947 1947-1973 1952-1953

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California professor of ceramics at Alfred University

University of California at Santa Cruz

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Summer Sessions

1953 1961 1977-1980

Black Mountain College, Ashville, North Carolina

Haystack School of Art, Deer Isle, Maine. Summer Sessions University of California, Santa Cruz, California

Guilds:

1936-1938 Fort Dodge Art Guild Honors:

1962-1963 1973

Fulbright Scholarship. Japan

Honorary Member, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)

Fellow of the American Crafts Council.*

Publications: Clay and Glazes for the Potter. New York: Greenberg, 1957.

Kilns: Design, Construction, and Operation. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book, 1968.

Pottery Form. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book, 1976.

Stoneware & Porcelain: The Art of High-Fired Pottery.

Philadelphia: Chilton, 1959.

Tamba Pottery: The Timeless Art of a Japanese Village. Tokyo:

Kodansha International, 1970.

Vera Cruz. Storage Jars from Ancient Japanese Kilns. New York:

Blum Helman Gallery, 1976.

Patents: with L. W. Austin

“Stabilized Sorel Cement and Method of Making It”, US 2,466,145, April 5, 1949.

“Refractory and Semi-Refractory Materials and Process for Manufacture”, US 2,543,752, March 6, 1951.

From: Faculty File, Scholes Library Personal File, Dean’s Office

* Bernstein, Melvin Herbert. Art and Design at Alfred: A Chronicle of a Ceramics College. Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1986.

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Obituary

Published in the New York Times, July 28, 1989, Section A, Page 10 Daniel Rhodes, 78, Ceramic Sculptor, Dies.

Daniel Rhodes, a sculptor in ceramics and pottery who taught and wrote on the subject, died of a heart attack Sunday at Washoe Medical Center in Reno, Nev.

He was 78 years old and lived in Swanton, Calif.

Mr. Rhodes was stricken while conducting a workshop at Sierra Nevada College.

From 1947 to 1973 he was a professor of ceramics at Alfred University in upstate New York. In the early 1970's he moved to California and taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

His work is in the collections of Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Kyoto Museum of Art in Japan and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, among other museums and galleries.

His first wife, Lillyan Rhodes, a painter and sculptor, died in 1986. He is survived by his second wife, the former Mary Beth Coulter; a son, Aaron, of Boston; a

daughter, Lorna, of Seattle; a brother, Tom, of Fallbrook, Calif., a sister, Rachel, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, and three grandchildren.

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Series Descriptions

Box 1

Correspondence Notebooks

Box 2

Notebooks

Annotated calendars Box 3

Raku recipe Sketches

Exhibitions & workshops Catalogs

Box 4

Miscellaneous Postcard collection Lectures (cassettes) Box 5

Original manuscript for Stoneware & Porcelain and Pottery Form Box 6

Original manuscript for Clay & Glazes Negatives

Box 7

Manuscript for Clay & Glazes for the Potter Box 8

Illustrations for Clay & Glazes Box 9

Original manuscript for Kilns Box 10

Tamba pottery - photographs/negatives Box 11

Photographs & Slides (Artwork & Travel) (a - l)

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Box 12

Notebooks

(a - d)Annotated Calendars Diplomas

Photographs

Note: Two boxes of shards given to Margarex C. Xie, Museum Director, for cataloging and preservation

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MC 4 Daniel Rhodes - AURA - Alfred University