Katharine Rhoades

File:Marion H. Beckett, Katharine N. Rhoades, ca. 1915.tif, Katharine N. Rhoades, ca. 1915]]

Katharine Nash Rhoades, born November 30, 1885, was the daughter of Lyman Rhoades{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/20559523/?terms=%22Katharine%2BRhoades%22 |title=What is Doing in Society |date=October 27, 1904 |website=The New York Times |accessdate=January 28, 2017|page=9|via=newspapers.com}}{{citation|title=Katharine N. Rhoades, Passport application #193, American Embassy at Paris |date=April 28, 1911 |publisher=National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)|location=Washington D.C.|quote=NARA Series: General Emergency Passport Applications, 1907-1923; Box #: 4346; Volume #: Volume 130: France to Korea}} (1847–1907), a banker, and Elizabeth Nash (1856-1919) of New York City. She was the middle child, with two brothers, Lyman Nash and Stephen Nash Rhoades.{{cite web|url=http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc23260.htm|title=Harsen-Rhoades Family Papers, 1752-1971 |year=2013 |website=New York State Library |accessdate=January 18, 2017}} She attended the Veltin School for Girls in Manhattan.

Rhoades was a debutante in 1904, as was Malvina Hoffman, with whom she traveled with Marion H. Beckett to Paris in 1908. She studied art there for two years.{{cite book|author=Marian Wardle|title=American women modernists|date=2005|publisher=Brigham Young University Museum of Art|location=Provo, Utah|isbn=978-0813536842|page=223|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tl0_m4YaXqkC&pg=PA223}} She studied with Robert Henri.

File:Katharine Rhoades, Mary Steichen, ca. 1915.tif

Rhoades was one of the artists who exhibited at the landmark 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art show. The show included one of her oil paintings, Talloires, ($400).Brown, Milton W., ‘’The Story of the Armory Show’’, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963, p. 284{{cite news |url=http://xroads.virginia.edu/~museum/armory/gender.html |title=The Part Played By Women: The Gender of Modernism at the Armory Show |website=University of Virginia |accessdate=January 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117223810/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~museum/armory/gender.html |archive-date=January 17, 2017 |url-status=dead }}

She, along with Agnes Ernst Meyer and Marion Beckett were known as "the Three Graces" of the Alfred Stieglitz art circle.{{cite book|author1=Roxana Robinson|author2=Georgia O'Keeffe|title=Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_dRU2c1LPcYC&pg=PA105|year=1989|publisher=UPNE|isbn=978-0-87451-906-8|page=105}} They were models for photographs by Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, paintings by Steichen, caricatures by Francis Picabia, drawings by Marius de Zayas, and paintings by Arthur Beecher Carles. Marsden Hartley remembered Rhoades and Beckett as being “both six feet, beautiful and always together“.

She posed for photographs by Stieglitz beginning in 1914.{{cite book|author=Katherine Hoffman|title=Stieglitz: A Beginning Light|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VUSMwNig2RwC&pg=PA269|year=2004|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-10239-0|pages=269, 298}} Rhoades contributed poems and illustrations to Camera Work a quarterly journal published by Alfred Stieglitz, like poems that were published in 1914. She was also an editor{{cite book|author=Cary Nelson|title=Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945|url=https://archive.org/details/repressionrecove00nels|url-access=registration|year=1989|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-12344-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/repressionrecove00nels/page/274 274]}} and contributor to 291, an arts and literary magazine.{{cite book|author1=Jules Heller|author2=Nancy G. Heller|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ReZkAgAAQBAJ|date=December 19, 2013|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-135-63889-4|page=467}}{{cite book|author=Katherine Hoffman|title=Stieglitz: A Beginning Light|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VUSMwNig2RwC&pg=PA318|year=2004|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-10239-0|pages=318, 311}} For the "What '291' Means to Me" issue, she wrote, "I touch four walls—I hear voices... those who have touched its world—I too went gazing, questioning, answering... I too merged with the voices; and the walls echoed".

File:Katharine Rhoades, Standing Nude, ca. 1915.tif

In 1914, Rhoades and Beckett exhibited the modern works of art at the National Arts Club. The following year, the two women had a joint exhibition at Stieglitz's 291 Gallery.{{cite book|editor1-last=Messinger|editor1-first=Lisa Mintz|title=Stieglitz and his artists : Matisse to O'Keeffe : the Alfred Stieglitz collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|date=2011|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|location=New York|isbn=9781588394330|page=237|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yluLVzM0etIC&q=%22marion+beckett%22+291&pg=PA237}} She had her first exhibit of her avant-garde paintings at the gallery that year. Her 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. She contributed to the formation of the Dada movement.

Rhoades, who was Charles Freer's secretary about 1913,{{cite book|author=Carol Felsenthal|title=Power, Privilege, and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xH2WwkoOPGoC&pg=PA26|date=January 1999|publisher=Seven Stories Press|isbn=978-1-888363-86-9|page=26}} was named as a lifetime trustee of the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in his will. The other trustees were Agnes and Eugene Meyer. The gallery opened in 1923.{{cite book|author=Carol Felsenthal|title=Power, Privilege, and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xH2WwkoOPGoC&pg=PA33|date=January 1999|publisher=Seven Stories Press|isbn=978-1-888363-86-9|page=33}} The Meyers named their daughter, Katharine, the wife of Philip Graham and publisher of The Washington Post after her.{{cite book|author=Katharine Graham|title=Personal History|url=https://archive.org/details/katharinegrahamp00grah_0|url-access=registration|year=1997|publisher=A.A. Knopf|isbn=978-0-394-58585-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/katharinegrahamp00grah_0/page/14 14], vi}}{{cite book|author=Nancy Signorielli|title=Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jds8Oc1Oqt0C&pg=PA175|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29164-7|page=175}} In 1937, she co-founded a religious library now part of the Ball duPont Library at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.Petteys, Chris, ‘’Dictionary of Women Artists’’, G K Hill & Co. publishers, 1985, {{ISBN|978-0-8161-8456-9}}

She may have had a romantic relationship with Stieglitz, or it may have been one-sided interest on his part,{{cite book|author1=Georgia O'Keeffe|author2=Alfred Stieglitz|title=My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uNkuyi_Fg3YC&pg=PAviii|date=June 21, 2011|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-16630-9|page=viii}} before he met Georgia O'Keeffe. Rhoades and Stieglitz remained good friends, and along with other members of his circle, she stayed at Stieglitz's summer home in Lake George.{{cite book|author1=Roxana Robinson|author2=Georgia O'Keeffe|title=Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_dRU2c1LPcYC&pg=PA149|year=1989|publisher=UPNE|isbn=978-0-87451-906-8|pages=149, 212, 249, 260, 271, 473}}{{cite book|author1=Georgia O'Keeffe|author2=Alfred Stieglitz|title=My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uNkuyi_Fg3YC&pg=PA601|date=June 21, 2011|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-16630-9|page=601}} O'Keeffe said that she found Rhoades to be a "wonderful person" whom she always liked{{cite book|author1=Georgia O'Keeffe|author2=Alfred Stieglitz|title=My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uNkuyi_Fg3YC&pg=PA147|date=June 21, 2011|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-16630-9|pages=39, 147}} and corresponded.{{cite book|author1=Georgia O'Keeffe|author2=Alfred Stieglitz|title=My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uNkuyi_Fg3YC&pg=PA612|date=June 21, 2011|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-16630-9|pages=92, 612}}

She had an affair with Arthur Beecher Carles.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/172378083/?terms=%22Katharine%2BRhoades%22 |title=The Unloved Art of a Rebel Genius | author=Andrew Geller |date=September 25, 1983 |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |accessdate=January 28, 2017|page=30|via=newspapers.com}}

Rhoades died October 26, 1965, and was buried with her parents and other family members at the Hillside Burial Grounds in Sharon, Connecticut.{{cite web|url=https://sharonhist.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Hillside-Burial-Ground-Records1.xls|title=Hillside Burial Ground Records|website=Sharon, Connecticut|accessdate=January 28, 2017|archive-date=July 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729051247/http://sharonhist.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Hillside-Burial-Ground-Records1.xls|url-status=dead}}

File:Artists at Mount Kisco 1912-restored.jpg|Group of artists at Mount Kisco in 1912, left to right: Paul Haviland, Abraham Walkowitz, Katharine Rhoades, Emmy Stieglitz, Agnes Meyer, Alfred Stieglitz, John Barrett Kerfoot, John Marin

File:The Picnic, Marius de Zayas.jpg|Marius de Zayas, The Picnic, 1912, Katharine Rhoades in the driver's seat, with Agnes Meyer, Eugene, Alfred Stieglitz, his wife, some critics, John Marin, Paul Haviland, and Marius de Zayas (in a cap)

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