12 Facts About Katharine Rhoades

Katharine Nash Rhoades was an American painter, poet and illustrator born in New York City.

Katharine Rhoades was the middle child, with two brothers, Lyman Nash and Stephen Nash Rhoades.

Katharine Rhoades attended the Veltin School for Girls in Manhattan.

Katharine Rhoades posed for photographs by Stieglitz beginning in 1914.

Katharine Rhoades contributed poems and illustrations to Camera Work a quarterly journal published by Alfred Stieglitz, like poems that were published in 1914.

Katharine Rhoades was an editor and contributor to 291, an arts and literary magazine.

Katharine Rhoades had her first exhibit of her avant-garde paintings at the gallery that year.

Katharine Rhoades's paintings were similar to the works of Matisse before World War I She burned many of her paintings made before the 1920s, her work during that time had elements of Cubism.

Katharine Rhoades contributed to the formation of the Dada movement.

Katharine Rhoades, who was Charles Freer's secretary about 1913, was named as a lifetime trustee of the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, in his will.

O'Keeffe said that she found Katharine Rhoades to be a "wonderful person" whom she always liked and corresponded.

Katharine Rhoades died October 26,1965, and was buried with her parents and other family members at the Hillside Burial Grounds in Sharon, Connecticut.