13 Facts About Daniel Rhodes

Daniel Rhodes was an American artist, known as a ceramic artist, muralist, sculptor, author and educator.

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

Daniel Rhodes attended the University of Chicago for four years, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Art History.

Daniel Rhodes worked with Iowa painter Grant Wood for two summers at the Stone City Art Colony, and then studied at the Art Students League of New York, where his teacher was Regionalist painter John Steuart Curry.

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.

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

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

Daniel Rhodes created a mural, Airmail, for the US Post Office in Piggott, Arkansas.

In 1947, they returned to New York State, where Daniel 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.

Daniel Rhodes later taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Daniel Rhodes was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and lived in Japan from 1962 to 1963.

Daniel Rhodes's accomplishments were recognized by major retrospectives at the Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa, and at Iowa State University, Ames.

Daniel Rhodes' work is in many permanent museum collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Everson Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Detroit Institute of Arts, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, Des Moines Art Center, among others.