Daniel Rhodes marks

About Daniel Rhodes

Daniel Rhodes was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1911 and died in Reno, Nevada, in 1989. Initially a painter who studied with Grant Wood, he began working in clay in 1940 and earned an MFA at Alfred University in 1942. He taught there from 1947 to 1973 and later at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His career included pottery, sculpture, ceramics books and articles. In 1964 he developed a method of building large clay sculptures with fibreglass cloth.