Caroline Speare Rohland
| Caroline Speare Rohland | |
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circa 1930
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| Born |
Caroline Melvina Speare April 15, 1885 Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts |
| Died | June 12, 1964 (aged 79) New York City, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | artist |
| Years active | 1915-1995 |
| Known for | pastels of the Southern United States |
Caroline Speare Rohland (April 15, 1885–June 12, 1964) was an American artist and muralist who created three post office murals, as part of the art projects for the New Deal's Section of Painting and Sculpture. In addition to the three murals, Rohland has works in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, The Honolulu Academy of Art, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Caroline Melvina Speare was born on April 15, 1885 in Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts to Edith (née Burgess) and Lewis Robinson Speare. She studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and then at the Art Students League of New York under the instruction of John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Then she studied with Andrew Dasburg, before making her way to the artists' community of . In 1915, she met and married fellow art student Paul Rohland, with whom she moved to a nearby community of artists known as "The Maverick", founded by Hervey White.
From 1927, Rohland exhibited at the Whitney Studio Club, the precursor to the museum. In that year, she was part of a three-woman show which included Gertrude Tiemer and Georgina Klitgaard and which ran for nearly three weeks. In 1929, she and her husband both participated in a circus-themed exhibition in New York City, timed to correspond with a Barnum and Bailey show and the following year, she Rosella Hartman and the Croatian sculptor, Dujam Penić were featured at the Whitney Gallery. From the opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1931, Rohland was a fixture, appearing in biennial shows until 1942. She was most known for her pastels, which had both contemporary style and sensual surfaces, often dealing with southern themes.
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