biografía de Rhys Steel CAPARN (1909-1997)

Lugar de nacimiento: Onteora Park, NY

Direcciones: NYC/Newtown, CT

Profesión: Sculptor

Estudios: Bryn Mawr College, 1927-29; …cole Artistique Animaux, with Edouard Navellier, 1930; Archipenko Art School, NYC, 1931-33.

Exposiciones: Delphic Studios, 1933, 1935 (solo); Salons of Am. (her last name was misspelled as Capran), 1934, 1936; PMA, 1940; Fed. Mod. P&S, 1940-46; NAWA, 1941-46 (prizes, 1944, 1945), 1960, 1961 (med. of honor for sculpture); 15 Sculptors," MoMA Traveling Exhib, 1941; WMAA, 1941-60 (5 annuals); AV, 1942; Wildenstein Gal., 1944 (solo); "New York Six," Petit Palais, Paris, 1950; MMA, 1951 (Am. Sculpture, second prize); "Unknown Political Prisoner," Tate Gallery, London, 1953; PAFA, 1952-64; "Drawings," 1956-57 & "8 Americans," 1957-58, U.S. Info Agency Exhibs., Europe & Far East."

Asociaciones: Fed. Modern P&S, NYC (pres., 1943-44); NAWA; Sculptors Guild; Am. Abstract Artists; Int. Inst. Arts & Letters (fellow); Mayors Comm. for Beautification, NYC, 1963-64; Harlem Cultural Council, 1964 (founding mem.)

Obra: Morton May Collection, City Art Mus., Saint Louis; Riverside Mus. Collection, Brandeis Univ.; drawings, Fogg Mus.; WMAA. Commissions: figures on armillary sphere (with Harold A. Caparn), Brooklyn Botanical Garden, 1932; wall reliefs in concrete, bronze screen, drawings in ceramic tile & fountain head (with O'Conner & Kilham), Wollman Lib., Barnard College, 1958-59.

Comentarios: Married to Johannes Steel. Preferred media: bronze, stone. Teaching: sculpture instructor, Dalton H.S., New York, 1946-55 & 1960-70s. Illustrator: Down the Mountain, 1962.

Fuentes: WW73; WW47; Robert Beverly Hale, Rhys Caparn (Retrospective Press, 1972); Marlor, Salons of Am. (as Rhys Capran)