John Rhoden

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John W. Rhoden
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Born(1916-03-13)March 13, 1916
Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
DiedJanuary 4, 2001(2001-01-04) (aged 82)
Queens, New York, U.S.
Education Talladega College, Columbia University, American Academy in Rome
Known for Sculpture

John W. Rhoden (March 13, 1916 - January 4, 2001) was an American sculptor from Birmingham, Alabama. [1]

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Rhoden graduated from Birmingham's Industrial High School, and then enrolled at Talladega College on an art scholarship. At the suggestion of Hale Woodruff he moved to New York in 1938, where he began studying with Richmond Barthé. [2] Rhoden worked in wood and bronze, and created a number of commissioned works including Untitled (Family) at Harlem Hospital Center; [3] Mitochondria at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan; Curved Wal at the African American Museum in Philadelphia; Zodiacal Structure at the Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia; and a sculpture of Frederick Douglass at Lincoln University. [1]

Life

Rhoden served in World War II, studied at the School of Painting and Sculpture at Columbia University, and was named a Fulbright Fellow in 1951. [1] He won a Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome in 1952. In 1956, he was a member of an artists delegation that visited the Soviet Union, Poland and Yugoslavia under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. [4]

After his time traveling with the State Department, the Rhodens returned to New York City in 1960. Shortly thereafter, John Rhoden left for Indonesia on a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to set up a bronze foundry at the Institut Teknolog i in Bandung from 1961 through 1963. [5]

At Columbia University, he studied under William Zorach, Oronzio Maldarelli and Hugo Robus. [6]

Personal life

Rhoden was married to Richanda Rhoden, a Native American artist.

Institutional Acknowledgement

Rhoden's works have been displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. [1]

In February 2019. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) officially opened the John and Richanda Roden Arts Center [7] , locating the Center in a previously unused lower level of the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building which occupies an arts complex with the Furness and Hewitt Historic Landmark Building.

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 "John Rhoden, 82, Sculptor of Public Art" at nytimes.com. (Accessed May 8, 2010.)
  2. ↑ Exhibition Catalogue: John Rhoden: Sculpture. Gallery 62, New York, NY 1982. Evans-Tibbs Collection, Artist file: Rhoden, John. National Gallery of Art Library, Washington D.C.
  3. ↑ Rose, Derek. "Crafting a Big Tribute: Sculptor John Rhoden recalled as art genius" New York Daily News (February 23, 2001)
  4. ↑ Exhibition Catalogue: Sculptures of John W. Rhoden. Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, 1971. Evans-Tibbs Collection, Artist file: Rhoden, John. National Gallery of Art Library, Washington D.C.
  5. ↑ "John Rhoden Digital Archives - Biography". johnrhoden.pafaarchives.org. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  6. ↑ "CRAFTING A BIG TRIBUTE, Sculptor John Rhoden recalled as art genius" Archived 2011-01-09 at the Wayback Machine at nydailynews.com. (Accessed May 9, 2010.)
  7. ↑ "Dramatic Transformation at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts". DLR Group. Retrieved 2025-04-10.

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