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Rhoda Campbell Chase

Rhoda Campbell Chase (died 1959) was an American artist and illustrator, mainly of children's books.

Early life and education

Chase's parents were Emma Eames Chase, a dentist, writer, and artist,[1][2][3] and Harry M. Chase, a marine painter.[4] She had a brother named Irwin Chase, who went on to become a designer and builder of PT boats.[5]

Chase's family came from a long line of artists and dentists,[6][7] with her father's side of the family having dentistry going back for five generations. Her uncle, Frederick B. Chase, was a specialist in prosthetic dentistry. And her paternal grandfather, Henry Seymour Chase, founded the Missouri State Dental School.[7] Her mother was the first female member of the American Dental Association.[3] Her cousin, Lyna Chase, also became an artist.[8]

In 1899, Chase graduated from the Mary Institute in St. Louis.[9] She attended the Monticello Seminary for three years. She later studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts.[8] She was a member of the St. Louis Artists' Guild. In 1905, she won 4th place in a St. Louis Post Dispatch and Artists' Guild juried competition, for her piece "Christmas Morn".[10][4]

Career

Around 1906, Chase was part of arts and crafts movement in St. Louis. She worked with decorative leather.[11] From 1906 to 1907, Chase lived abroad in Paris with her mother, where she studied art. During her time off from school in Paris, she painted in Holland.[2]

In 1907, Chase returned to the United States, moving to New York City with her mother "for the benefit of [her mother's] health", along with a plan to open a studio in the city so that she could continue creating her art.[12][2]

Around 1914, Chase moved to Woodstock, New York, where she continued to live for 45 years.[5] She worked as an illustrator, including illustrating a children's book-record hybrid called the Bubble Book, a collection of traditional children’s songs and accompanying music sung by Henry Burr. It sold 9000 copies in the first month it was released.[13]

Chase died August 1, 1959, in Kingston Hospital in Woodstock.[5]

Selected illustrated works

  • Story Hour Readers Revised Book Two (1914)
  • Wonderdays and Wonderways Through Flowerland, by Grace Tabor (c. 1916)[14]
  • Told By The Sandman (c. 1916), by Abbie Phillips Walker[15]
  • Mother Goose (Mayhew, Ralph and Burges Johnson)
  • The Child's World First Reader (1917)
  • The Child's World - Second through Fifth Reader (c. 1917), by Hetty S. Brown, Sarah Withers, and W. K. Tate[16]
  • So-Fat and Mew-Mew (c. 1918), by Georgiana Craik May[17]
  • The Christmas Reindeer (1926), by Thornton Waldo Burgess[18]
  • ...Far and Near: A Fourth Reader (1928), by Charles Edward Skinner, Mathilde Cecilia Gecks and John William Withers[19]
  • Friends to Make: A First Reader (1928), co-illustrated by Mabel Betsy Hill; written by Charles Edward Skinner, Mathilde Cecilia Gecks and John William Withers[19]
  • Playfellows: A Primer (1928), by Charles Edward Skinner, Mathilde Cecilia Gecks and John William Withers[19]
  • Fact and Story Readers (c. 1931), by Henry Suzzallo, George E. Freeland, Katherine L. McLaughlin, Ada M. Skinner[20]
  • For the Children's Hour (1923), by Caroyln S. Bailey and Clara M. Lewis[21]

References

  1. ^ "Is Successful Artist". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 9 April 1908. p. 5.
  2. ^ a b c "Have Returned from Europe". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 22 July 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Missouri State News". The Standard-Herald. 21 August 1890. p. 2. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  4. ^ a b "Superb Pictures in the Post-Dispatch Christmas Number". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 26 November 1905. p. 3. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  5. ^ a b c "Miss Rhoda Campbell Chase". The Daily Freeman. 3 August 1959. p. 2. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  6. ^ "Miss Rhoda Chase Illustrates Stories Children's Book". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 6 November 1926. p. 11. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  7. ^ a b "Dr. F. B. Chase Rites to Be Held Tuesday". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 27 December 1942. p. 2B. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  8. ^ a b "Society News". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 10 December 1899. p. 2. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  9. ^ "At Mary Institute". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Vol. 50, no. 293. 9 June 1899. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  10. ^ "The Christmas Sunday Post-Dispatch". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 3 December 1905. p. 22.
  11. ^ "Work at Home for Hundreds of Young Women a Promise of the Arts and Crafts Movement". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 14 January 1906. p. 8. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  12. ^ "Notes and Personals". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 8 January 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  13. ^ Smith, Jacob (7 February 2011). "1. Turntable Jr.". Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures. University of California Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-520-94835-8. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  14. ^ "Some Holiday Books for Young Readers". The New York Times. No. 21512. 17 December 1916. p. 561. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  15. ^ "Review of Told By The Sandman". The Journal of Education. 84 (19 (2105)): 525. 1916. ISSN 0022-0574.
  16. ^ "Review of The Child's World. Second Reader, Third Reader, Fourth Reader, Fifth Reader". The Journal of Education. 86 (3 (2139)): 78. 1917. ISSN 0022-0574. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  17. ^ "So-Fat and Mew-Mew". Journal of Education. 88 (22): 610. 12 December 1918. ISSN 0022-0574. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  18. ^ "Thornton Waldo Burgess". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Gale. 2003. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  19. ^ a b c "Charles Edward Skinner". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Gale. 2001. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  20. ^ "Fact and Story Readers". Journal of Education. 113 (4): 102. 1931. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  21. ^ "Latest Books: Juvenile". New York Times. 9 May 1926. p. BR26 – via ProQuest.
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