MC 4

Daniel Rhodes 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 , Scholes Library Daniel Rhodes (1911-1989) Born: May 8, 1911, Fort Dodge, 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: Fort Dodge Junior College 1929-1930 Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, Summer Sessions under: Norma Rice and Viola Norman 1929-1933 , Chicago, Illinois, Ph.B. (Art History) 1932-1933 Stone City Art Colony, Stone City, Iowa, Summer Sessions under: 1933-1934 Art Students League, New York, New York under: John Stewart Curry Summer Mexico 1940 Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado under: Boardman Roberson and Arnold Blanch 1941-1942 New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, Alfred, New York MFA awarded 1943 Works: 1936-1938 Blanden Gallery, Fort Dodge, Iowa. 1939-1940 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) 1941-1942 Glidden Pottery, Alfred, New York (Designer) 1942 War Relocation Authority, Cody, Wyoming 1943 Research in high heat ceramics for Henry J. Kaiser Corporation, San Jose, Studio at Menlo Park, California, production thrown and cast ware for Gumps Department Store in , California

1946 , Palo Alto, California 1946-1947 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 1947-1973 professor of ceramics at Alfred University University of California at Santa Cruz 1952-1953 University of Southern California, , California. Summer Sessions 1953 , Ashville, North Carolina 1961 Haystack School of Art, Deer Isle, Maine. Summer Sessions 1977-1980 University of California, Santa Cruz, California Guilds: 1936-1938 Fort Dodge Art Guild Honors: 1962-1963 Fulbright Scholarship. Japan 1973 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. 95/eg 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.

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) 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

Contents Box 1 Correspondence 1960-1989 Undated Harold Tovish Jim Danisch Alfred Alpert Mailings Craft Alliance Dorothy Weiss Gallery English Gallery Esther Saks Gallery Haystack Lawrence Gallery Munson Gallery Traveling Show Biographical data Miscellaneous Diary Oriental Art Tamba Pottery Pottery, Art and Craft Patent “Pottery making procedures for an underdeveloped community. Sketches of potter’s wheel, kilns, clap processing and upgrading.” Unpublished. 1967 Publications Truax, Harold Arthur, Jr.: dissertation on Daniel Rhodes; Columbia University, 1969 Student Papers: Ayres, Gary Houle, Alan. Metz, Andee Notebooks No date No date: Glaze # 4 trials, Draft of contract with R.Turner. No date: Terra sigillata experiment No date: Japan No date: Notes No date: Diary Diary, 1969? Diary, Nov. 70 - May 71 Sketch diary Fiction notes China notes Work plans, career notes Recipe notes, no sketch

Box 2 Notebooks Japan journals 1949? Glazes, notes Notes, Nov. 49 - July 28, 1964 Notes, 1952 - 1956? - Recipes Notes, - July 1957 Notes, July 1957 - Oct. 1958 Notes, Nov. 1959 - Notes, 1957 - 1960 Notes, Dec. 1959 - June 1961 Notes, June 22, 1961 - Sept. 4, 1961 Notes, June 25, 1961 - Aug. 21, 1961 Notes, Oct. 9, 1961 - July 9, 1964 Notes, Feb. 1961 - June 1961 Notes, June 25, 1961 - Aug. 16, 1961 Notes, Sept. 1961 - October 1961 Notes, 1962 - April 1965 - recipes Notes, recipe, 1963 - March 27, 1965 Notes, July 15, 1964 Notes, July 26, 1964 - July 30, 1964 Notes, 1965 Notes, July 12, 1965 - Dec. 1965 - recipes Notes, 1966 - 1973 Notes, Aug. 1970 - 1973 Notes, Aug. 1974 - 1978, recipes, inventory Inventory notes? - 1976, recipes Notes, 1976 "Notes to myself 1978", Jab, 1977 - 1980 Egypt 1983 Annotated calendars Undated sketchbook

Box 3 Raku recipe Miscellaneous sketches Exhibitions & Workshops 1940-1950 1951-1955 (Cer.Nat'l.1952-54) 1956-1959 (Cer.Nat'l.1956,58) 1960-1965 (Cer.Nat'l.1962,65) 1966-1970 (Cer.Nat'l.1966,69) 1971-1975 1976-1980 1981-1985 1986-1990 Undated Catalogs 1940-1988 Undated

Box 4 New Zealand Cid Corman Chinese calligraphy Personal catalogs Postcard collection Book file Address cards Cassettes March 1984 Davenport, California, 9/3/77 Lecture, Oakland Community College, 11/12/81 Demonstration, 4/19/69 Lecture Demonstration, Melbourne, Australia, 1978 Photograph/plastic plate

Box 5 Original manuscript for Pottery Form

Box 6 Original manuscript for Clay & Glazes. Negatives

Box 7 Manuscript for Clay & Glazes for the Potter and Stoneware & Porcelain: A Great Tradition

Box 8 Illustrations for Clay & Glazes

Box 9 Original manuscript for Kilns Kiln slides

Box 10 Tamba pottery - photographs/negatives

Box 11a Photographs: Artwork I Artwork II Artwork III Artwork IV Portraits Scenery I Scenery II Slides Scenery III Japan & Korea travel and pottery Historical and Miscellaneous Balic, Greece & Crete, Geuelin & Li RV, Spain & Morocco, China Guardians Negatives Henry Moore, Berenson Workshop, Student work, Miscellaneous San Franciso Show (paintings). Portrait of Rhodes by Tovish, pottery, Black Mountain, Summer 1949, Caremont Show 1951, Kids/Studio, Ceramic birds (Lillian?), 2 prints of Imogen Cunningham., slides of Alfred, Big Creek Workshop (1971?)

Box 12a Notebooks No date 1976 ? - 1976 Inventory Notes Jan 1977 - 1980 "notes to myself 78" Notebooks (late 1940s) with grades and recipes, 1985. Grant Wood Framed certificate Book cover: Tamba Pottery Annotated calendars 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981 Diplomas Photographs Art work Photographs Portraits, scenery Calendars

Box 13 Tools

Box 14 Shards with postcard and shipping envelope explaining story behind the collection.

NOTE: Two boxes of shards given to Margaret C. Xie, Museum, Curator, for cataloging and preservation.

Box 15 Tools