Dorothy Rieber Joralemon
{{Short description|American sculptor (1893–1987)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Dorothe Rieber Joralemon
| image = DorothyRieber1915.png
| alt = A young white woman with blonde hair combed in a side-parted style
| caption = Dorothy Rieber, from the 1915 yearbook of the University of California
| birth_name = Dorothy Rieber
| birth_date = March 19, 1893
| birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.
| death_date = March 22, 1987
| death_place = Berkeley, California, U.S.
| education = University of California, Berkeley,
Art Students League of New York,
California College of Arts and Crafts,
Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design
| occupation = Artist, writer
| known_for = Children's portraits, abstract sculptor
| spouse = Ira B. Joralemon (m. 1919–1975; death)
| children = 2
}}
Dorothy Rieber Joralemon (March 19, 1893 – March 22, 1987) was an American abstract sculptor, children's portrait artist and writer based in Northern California.
Early life and education
Born in San Francisco as Dorothy Rieber, she was the daughter of Winifred Smith Rieber, a portrait painter, and Charles Henry Rieber, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.{{Cite web |date=1979 |title=To live strivingly: glimpses into the 100 years 1866-1965 as lived by my mother, my father and some of their friends, typescript,1979. |url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/search?query=Dorothy%20Rieber%20Joralemon;identifier=2764%202765%202766%202767%202768%202769%202770%202771;identifier-join=or;group=Items;idT=UCb105524906 |access-date=2017-06-02 |website=Online Archive of California, California Digital Library |language=en}} She played Joan of Arc in The Partheneia, a 1912 pageant on campus.{{Cite news |last=Anthony |first=Walter |date=1912-04-07 |title=In Classic Grove Beautiful Women Interpret Maidens' Dream |pages=57 |work=The San Francisco Call |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115164342/in-classic-grove-beautiful-women/ |access-date=2022-12-25 |via=Newspapers.com}} She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the same institution in 1915.{{cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/artist/Dorothy_Rieber_Joralemon/101693/Dorothy_Rieber_Joralemon.aspx|title=Dorothy Rieber Joralemon – Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Dorothy Rieber Joralemon|website=Askart.com|accessdate=2 June 2017}} After college, she spent time in France, as a Red Cross canteen worker during World War I.{{Cite news |date=1918-11-27 |title=Untitled brief item |pages=1 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115164030/untitled-brief-item/ |access-date=2022-12-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1918-11-21 |title=Dorothy Rieber in France |pages=9 |work=The Sacramento Bee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115164190/dorothy-rieber-in-france/ |access-date=2022-12-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Rieber next studied art at the Art Students League of New York and began her career as a children's portrait artist.{{Cite news |date=September 28, 1928 |title=At Paul Elder's |pages=6 |work=Mill Valley Record |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MVR19280928.2.60&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Dorothy+Rieber+Joralemon------- |access-date=December 25, 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}} In the 1930s, she discovered modern art and abstraction under the tutelage of Vaclav Vytlacil at the California College of Arts and Crafts.{{cite book|author=Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein|title=American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions|url=https://archive.org/details/americanwomenscu0000rubi|url-access=registration|year=1990|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=978-0-8161-8732-4}} She also had art lessons with Worth Ryder and Rudolph Schaeffer, the latter at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design.
Career
Joralemon showed work at exhibitions of the American Abstract Artists, and appeared at the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE), but by the 1950s she was forced to stop her art career due to problems with her eyesight. In the 1980s she wrote pieces for a number of magazines including American Heritage, American West and New Age Magazine. She was a member of the San Francisco Society of Women Artists.{{Cite news |date=January 15, 1939 |title=Woman to Show Decorative Arts |pages=18 |work=Oakland Tribune |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=OT19390115.1.18&srpos=3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Dorothy+Rieber+Joralemon------- |access-date=December 25, 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
Personal life and legacy
In 1919, Rieber married Ira B. Joralemon, a geologist and mining engineer; they had known each other since childhood.{{Cite news |date=1919-04-13 |title=Maj. I. B. Jaralemon Returns to Warren District to Reside |pages=4 |work=Bisbee Daily Review |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115166943/maj-i-b-jaralemon-returns-to-warren/ |access-date=2022-12-25 |via=Newspapers.com}} They lived for many years in Berkeley, in a home at 168 Southampton Avenue designed by Bernard Maybeck.{{cite web|url=http://berkeleyheritage.com/awards/awards2006.2.html|title=BAHA :: Preservation Awards 2006, Part 2|website=berkeleyheritage.com|accessdate=2 June 2017}} The couple had two children, a son Peter and a daughter Margaret.{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=margaret-albrink&pid=162003215|title=Margaret Albrink MD's Obituary on San Francisco Chronicle|website=San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=2 June 2017}} Her husband died in 1975,{{Cite news |date=1975-08-23 |title=Ira B.Joralemon, 91, Mining Consultant |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/23/archives/irab-joralemon-91-mining-consultant.html |access-date=2022-12-25 |issn=0362-4331}} and she died in 1987, in Berkeley, at the age of 94.{{Cite news |date=1987-03-27 |title=Obituary for Dorothy Rieber Joralemon (Aged 94) |pages=29 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63926242/obituary-for-dorothy-rieber-joralemon/ |access-date=2022-12-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Her artwork is found in various collections including that of the Mills College Art Museum.{{Cite web|url=http://artmuseum.mills.edu:5000/Obj2211?sid=333&x=255981|title=DOROTHY RIEBER JORALEMON|website=Mills College Art Museum|access-date=2017-06-01}}
References
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External links
- Article: [http://www.americanheritage.com/content/too-many-philosophers "Too Many Philosophers" (1980)] by Dorothy Rieber Joralemon, in American Heritage Magazine
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Category:20th-century American sculptors
Category:20th-century American women sculptors
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:Art Students League of New York alumni
Category:California College of the Arts alumni
Category:Artists from San Francisco
Category:Artists from Berkeley, California
Category:Sculptors from California