Dorothy Rieber Joralemon

Dorothy Rieber Joralemon (March 19, 1893 – March 22, 1987) was an American abstract sculptor, children's portrait artist and writer based in Northern California.

Biography

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.[1] She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the same institution in 1915;[2] she next studied art at the Art Students League of New York and began her career as a children's portrait artist before, in the 1930s, discovering modern art and abstraction under the tutelage of Vaclav Vytlacil at the California College of Arts and Crafts.[3] She also had art lessons with Worth Ryder and Rudolph Schaeffer, the latter at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design.[2]

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.[2][3] In the 1980s she wrote pieces for a number of magazines including American Hertitage, American West and New Age Magazine.

With her husband Ira she lived for many years in Berkeley, in a home at 168 Southampton Avenue designed by Bernard Maybeck.[2][4] The couple, who married in 1919,[2] had two children, a son and a daughter.[5]

Her artwork is found in various collections including that of the Mills College Art Museum.[6]

References
  1. "To live strivingly: glimpses into the 100 years 1866-1965 as lived by my mother, my father and some of their friends, typescript,1979". www.oac.cdlib.org. 1979. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
  2. "Dorothy Rieber Joralemon – Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Dorothy Rieber Joralemon". Askart.com. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  3. Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (1990). American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8732-4.
  4. "BAHA :: Preservation Awards 2006, Part 2". berkeleyheritage.com. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  5. "Margaret Albrink MD's Obituary on San Francisco Chronicle". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  6. "DOROTHY RIEBER JORALEMON". Mills College Art Museum. Retrieved 2017-06-01.


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