Katharine Rhoades

1885 (age 10)

New York City

Rhoades was a contributor to Camera Work a quarterly journal published by Alfred Stieglitz and 291, an arts and literary magazine. She, along with Agnes Ernst Meyer and Marion Beckett were known as "the Three Graces" in the Stiglitz art circle where, among things, they served as models for photographs by Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, paintings by Steichen, caricatures by Francis Picabia, drawings by Marius de Zayas, and paintings by Arthur B. Carles. Marsden Hartley remembered Rhoades and Beckett as being “both six feet, beautiful and always together“. In 1915 she became associated with Charles Freer in the creation of the Freer Gallery in Washington District of Columbia In 1937 she co-founded a religious library now part of the Ball duPont Library at University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Rhoades was one of the artists who exhibited at this landmark show. The show included one of her oil paintings, Talloires, ($400).

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Rhoades was a contributor to Camera Work a quarterly journal published by Alfred Stieglitz and 291, an arts and literary magazine. She, along with Agnes Ernst Meyer and Marion Beckett were known as "the Three Graces" in the Stiglitz art circle where, among things, they served as models for photographs by Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, paintings by Steichen, caricatures by Francis Picabia, drawings by Marius de Zayas, and paintings by Arthur B. Carles. Marsden Hartley remembered Rhoades and Beckett as being “both six feet, beautiful and always together“.

In 1915 she became associated with Charles Freer in the creation of the Freer Gallery in Washington District of Columbia In 1937 she co-founded a religious library now part of the Ball duPont Library at University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Rhoades was one of the artists who exhibited at this landmark show.

The show included one of her oil paintings, Talloires, ($400).

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