Dorothy Rieber Joralemon
Dorothy Rieber Joralemon 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. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the same institution in 1915; 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. She also had art lessons with Worth Ryder and Rudolph Schaeffer, the latter at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design.
Joralemon showed work at exhibitions of the American Abstract Artists, and appeared at the Golden Gate International Exposition, but by the 1950s she was forced to stop her art career due to problems with her eyesight. 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. The couple, who married in 1919, had two children, a son and a daughter.
Her artwork is found in various collections including that of the Mills College Art Museum.
