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Daniel Rhode

Daniel Rhode was born and raised in Lowa, Fort Dodge. Margret Agnes Rhode and

Daniel J were his parents. Rhode began his career in art by enrolling in summer studies at the

Institute of Art in Chicago. Rhode attended the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1933 a

period of four years earning a bachelor degree in arts majoring in art history. For two

summers, Rhode worked with Grant Wood a painter from Lowa at a place called Stone City

Art Colony. In 1933 to 1934, Rode as well studied at Art Students League of New York and

John Steuart Curry a Regionalist painter was his teacher. Rhode resided at Fort Dodge (1935-

1938), where he operated as a muralist and painter in the Art Guild in Fort Dodge, and he was

a lecturer at Blanded Art Gallery (Clark, 1987). Rhode actively participated in the art circle

of the state while staying in Lowa and frequently presented at Lowa State Fair. Rhode studied

at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in 1940 and entered the alumni program at Alfred

University that dealt with ceramics. In 1942, Rhode became the first person to be awarded an

MFA in the school.

Daniel Rhode Artwork

Rhode in 1937 associated with Howard C. Johnson who together was able to produce

the biggest Lowa State Fairground painting in Des Moines. Afterward, there was a public

turmoil over technical imprecisions and its description of farmers, the painting was destroyed

upon instructions in 1946 from the Fair Board of the State. Daniel continued to be lively in
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the Lowa art circle by exhibiting frequently at Lowa Art Salon in State Fair and was able to

win an unprecedented three successive sweepstakes awards (1938-1940) for oil painting

(Mattison, 2003). Rhode married Lillyan Jacobs in 1940, a Pueblo pottery artiste. After his

clay art learning in Colorado Springs, Rhode became the first person to graduate with MFA at

the College of Ceramics in New York State.

Rhode remained in the State of New York after graduating where he worked as a

designer in 1941 for Glidden Pottery. Rhode eventually moved to San Jose, California,

whereby he did an investigation in high-temperature ceramics in 1943 for Henry J. Kaiser

Corporation (Rhodes, 2015). In Menlo Park in 1947, Rhode built a scale studio for creating

cast and thrown ware for Gumps Department of San Francisco. Rhode combined the faculty

of Stanford University and Art Institute of San Francisco. While Rode was a member of the

art department, he achieved contract as a lecturer of Ceramics and was able to build an

international status from his research and art in firing and glazes methods.

Rhode continued to have his career as a sculptor and potter for a long time. Rhode

developed in 1964 developed a technique for building as well as firing large statuaries by

integrating fiberglass material in the clay form of the work (Mattison, 2003). In the 1980s, his

sculptures concentrated on the head and torso. Throughout Rhodes’ profession his vase,

vessel forms, and bowls often comprised a stem base that elevated them overhead the table

surface as well as from being modest functional ware to becoming sculptural objects (Clark,

1987). On July 23rd, 1989, having seventy-eight years, Rhodes, then an occupant of Santa

Cruz passed on from a heart attack while in Reno, Nev. Rhodes and Mary Beth his second

wife was on a two-month excursion to college campuses where they were conducting a

workshop when Rhodes meet his demise.

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Work Cited

Clark, G. (1987). American ceramics: 1876 to the present. Abbeville Press.

Mattison, S. (2003). The complete potter: The complete reference to tools, materials, and

techniques for all potters and ceramicists. Hauppage, NY: Barron's.

Rhodes, D. (2015). Clay and glazes for the potter.