Pauline Dohn Rudolph

Pauline Dohn Rudolph (1865-1934) was an American painter. She was also a founder of the Chicago Palette Club.

Pauline Dohn Rudolph
Born
Pauline Amalie Dohn

1865 (1865)
Chicago, Illinois
Died1934 (aged 68–69)
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting
Spouse
Franklin Rudolph
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(m. 1901⁠–⁠1922)​
(his death)[1]

Early years

Dohn was born in Chicago in 1865.[2] She studied art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts[3] and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia where she studied with Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anschutz.[4] This was followed by a move to Paris where she enrolled in the Académie Julian and studied with Boulanger and Lefebvre.[5][6]

Career

Returning to Chicago she founded[7] and exhibited at the Palette Club before accepting a teaching position at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.[5]

Dohn exhibited at least four works at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago—the mural Industrial Arts for the Reception Room of the Illinois State Building, and paintings in the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building.[8]

Later life

Dohn married Franklin Rudolph in 1901,[3] with whom she had three children.[5] She moved to California in 1933, where she died on June 19, 1934.[1]

See also
  • Oil painting of a girl wearing a linen cap standing in front of a cottage window, looking away from the viewer. She is holding a large tray filled with pears.
    Pear-Time, 1895
  • Oil painting of a woman in a high necked, long sleeved dress looking at herself in the mirror. Her hair is in a bun and she wears a brown hat with red flowers on the right side.
    A Village Belle, 1899
  • Etching of four women in Ancient Greek attire. One sits weaving at a loom, one is standing with a drop spindle, and one sits watching another paint a jar. Two naked children sit and stand off to the left, measuring out lengths of thread.
    Mural: Industrial Arts, exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
  • Faded etching of a woman in a dark dress holding an infant in a white gown, and two small girls looking at the baby
    What the Storks Brought, exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago

References
  1. "Pauline Dohn Rudolph: Winnetkan and National Artist". Winnetka Historical Society. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  2. Greenough, Nan. "The Portrait of Mary Dohn". Winnetka Historical Society. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  3. Petteys, Chris, “Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900”, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985 p. 614
  4. "Pauline Amalie (Rudolph) Dohn". AskArt. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  5. "Pauline Dohn (Rudolph)". M. Christine Schwartz Collection. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  6. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986, p. 798
  7. "Pauline Dohn Rudolph". Chicago Artists. Illinois Historical Art Project. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  8. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 31 August 2018.
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