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Born in Cleveland, Ohio 1878, American artist Grace Rhoades Dean was both a painter in watercolours and a printmaker of various methods such as etchings, woodblocks, lithographs and lino cuts. She studied with Keyon Cox at the Cleveland School of Art and Arthur Wesley Dow at Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1901. Grace Rhodes married artist James Ernest Dean in 1909 prior to the couples studying in Munich between 1910 and 1914. She was teacher at Cornell‘s school South Bristol Maine, worked at the Toledo Museum of Art from 1917 to 25 and taught at the Scott High School in Toledo.
Grace Dean was the president of the Ohio Water Color Society and also an exhibitor. She was a member of the following art associations; National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, Cleveland Women Arts Club , Toledo Society of Women Artists and the Dayton Society of Etchers.
Her works were shown at the International Exhibition of Watercolours, Chicago, the Ohio State Fair, Hackley Art Gallery in Muskegon Michigan in 1926 which was a joint exhibition with her husband, also in the city of Omaha and Charleston. She exhibited watercolours at the Pennsylvania Academy of fine arts Philadelphia in 1922 while living at 1064 Oakwood Ave., Toledo, OH. Award winner at the Toledo Museum of Arts in 1920 and 1924, the Ohio state fair 1922 and at the Ohio Print Salon 1930.
Grace Rhoades Dean died in Toledo, Ohio in July of 1968 at the age of 90.