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Daniel Rhodes was born on 8 May, 1911 in Fort Dodge, Iowa, US, is an American sculptor and artist. Discover Daniel Rhodes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 8 May 1911
Birthday 8 May
Birthplace Fort Dodge, Iowa, US
Date of death 23 July, 1989
Died Place Reno, Nevada, US
Nationality United States

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1911

Daniel Rhodes (May 8, 1911 – July 23, 1989) was an American artist, known as a ceramic artist, muralist, sculptor, author and educator.

Rhodes was born on May 8, 1911, and raised in Fort Dodge, Iowa, the son of Daniel J. and Margaret Agnes (née Brennan) Rhodes.

He began his art career by enrolling in summer courses at the Art Institute of Chicago.

1929

He attended the University of Chicago for four years (1929–1933), earning a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Art History.

1932

He worked with Iowa painter Grant Wood for two summers (1932 and 1933) at the Stone City Art Colony, and then also studied at the Art Students League of New York (1933–34), where his teacher was Regionalist painter John Steuart Curry.

1935

From 1935 to 1938, Rhodes lived in Fort Dodge, where he worked as a painter and muralist, participated in the Fort Dodge Art Guild, and lectured at the Blanden Art Gallery (now the Blanden Memorial Art Museum).

1937

The first, titled Storm Lake (1937), was created for the post office at Storm Lake, Iowa.

Later, when a new post office was built, the mural was relocated to the public library.

In the same year, Rhodes and another Iowa painter named Howard C. Johnson were commissioned to create a large mural (110 feet wide by 10 ft high), planned for installation in the Agricultural Building at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.

Titled Where tillage begins, other arts follow, the project was a commemoration of Iowa agriculture: planting, harvesting, production, and the meat packing industry.

Unfortunately, it soon became the subject of a public derision.

1938

While living in Iowa, he participated actively in the state's art circles, and frequently exhibited at the Iowa State Fair, where he won an unprecedented three consecutive annual sweepstakes awards for oil painting from 1938 to 1940, outdistancing a record held by Grant Wood.

1939

In 1939-40, Rhodes taught at the Art Students’ Workshop in Des Moines, Iowa and was also a guest lecturer at the Ottumwa Art Center and Iowa State University.

Another mural is titled Communication by Mail (1939) and is located at Marion, Iowa.

Rhodes painted this mural in the time-honored technique of fresco-secco, directly onto the Post Office's lobby wall.

It features the role of the railroad in transporting mail.

1940

After additional study in 1940 at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (where he began to work with clay), Rhodes entered the graduate program at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, where, in 1942, he became the first person to graduate from that school's Master of Fine Arts program.

After completing his MFA degree at Alfred University, the Rhodes remained in that area, where he worked as a designer for Glidden Pottery.

In 1940, he married the former Lillyan Estelle Jacobs of Des Moines, a potter, sculptor and figurative painter whom he had met at Stone City.

They raised two children, a daughter and a son.

1941

Rhodes created a mural, Airmail (1941), for the U.S. Post Office in Piggott, Arkansas.

1943

In 1943, they moved to California, where he worked in San Jose as a researcher in high heat ceramics for the Henry J. Kaiser Corporation.

1946

Opinionated passersby complained about factual inaccuracies in the mural, claimed that the figures of Iowans were too solemn, and objected to what they considered to be a style that was “too modern.” In 1946, Iowa State Fair Board Secretary Lloyd Cunningham ordered that the mural be taken down and that the dismantled pieces be used as scrap lumber.

Apparently, all that now survives of the mural are a few photographs.

During the same period, Rhodes was briefly on the faculties at Stanford University (1946) and the San Francisco Art Institute (1946–47).

1947

During his 25 years (1947–1973) on the faculty at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, in Alfred, New York (a division of the State University of New York), he built an international reputation as a potter, sculptor and authority on studio pottery.

Three years later, they moved to Menlo Park, California, where in 1947 they built a full-scale ceramic studio, and created thrown and cast ware for Gump's, the San Francisco department store.

In 1947, they returned to New York State, where Rhodes joined the art department faculty of his alma mater, the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, where he taught from 1947 to 1973.

1952

While at Alfred University, Rhodes also taught summer sessions in ceramics at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (1952–53); Black Mountain College, Asheville, North Carolina; and the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine (1961).

1968

The Post Office was decommissioned and sold to the city of Marion in 1968.

1977

Rhodes later taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1977–1980).

1986

Lillyan Rhodes died in 1986.

Rhodes received several mural commissions from the Section of Painting and Sculpture.

2005

The city used the building as the City Hall until 2005.

The building sat empty for a year before being bought by a bank.

2008

In June 2008, Anton Rajer a professional fine art conservator from Green Bay, WI will begin work to move the mural to the Marion Heritage Center.

The mural is estimated to weigh approximately 2,000–3,000 pounds, and will be removed from the building in one piece by a team of contractors.

2019

On April 10, 2019, in Piggott, the US Postal Service released a series of postage stamps featuring post office murals, including "Airmail."

The Postal Service planned to produce 30 million of the stamps.

His success in completing these projects led to Rhodes being commissioned for New Deal art projects in other states, including post office murals at Clayton, Missouri (now at the Federal Building in Des Moines), and Glen Ellyn, Illinois; and a cafeteria mural in the main U.S. Navy building in Washington, D.C.