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Bernard Bumpus (1921–2004) was the leading authority on the Rhead family. In the 1980s Bumpus curated an exhibition at the [[Geffrye Museum]] in London, which included examples of Louis Rhead's flies. This exhibition, ''Rhead Artists and Potters'', toured several UK Museums including the [[Potteries Museum & Art Gallery]] in Staffordshire. Bumpus hoped to take a version of the exhibition to the USA, but, despite American interest in the Rhead family, this project foundered.[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article498562.ece]
Bernard Bumpus (1921–2004) was the leading authority on the Rhead family. In the 1980s Bumpus curated an exhibition at the [[Geffrye Museum]] in London, which included examples of Louis Rhead's flies. This exhibition, ''Rhead Artists and Potters'', toured several UK Museums including the [[Potteries Museum & Art Gallery]] in Staffordshire. Bumpus hoped to take a version of the exhibition to the USA, but, despite American interest in the Rhead family, this project foundered.[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article498562.ece]

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Louis John Rhead
Louis Rhead circa 1907[1]
BornNovember 6, 1857
DiedJuly 29, 1926
NationalityBritish, American
EducationNational Art Training School
Known forDecorative Arts, Illustrator

Louis John Rhead (November 6, 1857 – July 29, 1926) was an English-born American artist, illustrator, author and angler who was born in Etruria, Staffordshire, England. He emigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-four.

Early life

The Rhead family had operated and worked in the Staffordshire Potteries for at least three generations. Louis’s father George W. Rhead worked in the pottery industry and was highly respected gilder and ceramic artist. In the 1870s, George Rhead taught art and design in Staffordshire schools.[2] He founded Fenton School of Art.

"Fly fishing", a book-plate by Louis Rhead
Rhead in his studio circa 1920[3]

Louis and all his siblings attended their father’s art classes and worked in the potteries as children. His brothers Frederick Alfred Rhead and George W. Rhead Jr. were also artistic, and Louis, later in his career, sometimes collaborated with them, for example in book illustration projects. Louis was also the uncle of the potters Charlotte Rhead and Frederick Hurten Rhead.

Because Louis demonstrated exceptional talent, when he was thirteen in 1872, his father sent him to study in Paris, France with artist Gustave Boulanger. After three years in Paris, Louis Rhead returned to work in the potteries as a ceramic artist at Minton and later at Wedgwood. In 1879 he gained a scholarship at the National Art Training School, South Kensington, London.[2] After graduating from South Kensington in 1881, Louis Rhead worked briefly for Wedgwood and worked for the London publisher Cassell.

U.S. career

In 1883 at the age of twenty-four, Louis Rhead was offered a position as Art Director for the U.S. publishing firm of D. Appleton in New York City. He accepted and emigrated to the U.S. in the fall of 1883. In 1884 he married Catherine Bogart Yates, thus becoming an American citizen. Louis and Catherine lived in Flatbush overlooking Prospect Park for forty years.[2]

In the early 1890s, Rhead became a prominent poster artist and was heavily influenced by the work of Swiss artist Eugène Grasset. During the poster craze of the early 1890s, Rhead’s poster art appeared regularly in Harper's Bazaar, Harper's Magazine, St. Nicolas, Century Magazine, Ladies Home Journal and Scribner's Magazine. In 1895 he won a Gold Medal for Best American Poster Design at the first International Poster Show in Boston.

By the late 1890s, the popularity of poster art declined and Rhead turned his skills to book illustration.[2] Between 1902 and his death in 1926, Rhead illustrated numerous children's books published by Harpers and others. Most notable among these were editions of: Robin Hood, The Swiss Family Robinson, Robinson Crusoe, The Deerslayer, Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Heidi.[2]

Angling

Rhead was an avid fly fisher and by his own account started fishing for trout in the U.S. sometime between 1888 and 1890. In 1901 he became interested in angling art and much of his later published works deal with fishing and fly fishing. Rhead was also tackle dealer and sold his own line of artificial flies.[2] His most famous and celebrated work is American Trout-Stream Insects (1916). At the time of its publication this was one of the first and most comprehensive studies of stream entomology ever published in America.

Paul Schullery in American Fly Fishing-A History (1987) says this about Rhead:

Louis Rhead was one of the most creative, fresh-thinking, and simulating of American fly-fishing writers, a man of extraordinary gifts. ... his major effort was American Trout Stream Insects, a book based on several years of trout fishing in the Catskills[4]

Death

Louis Rhead's death was somewhat unusual. He died from a heart attack at his retirement home in Amityville, Long Island. A portion of his obituary in The New York Times, Friday July 30, 1926:

LOUIS RHEAD, ARTIST AND ANGLER, DEAD. Exhausted Recently by Long Struggle In Capturing a 30-pound Turtle.

...About two weeks ago Mr. Rhead set out to catch a turtle weighing thirty pounds which had been devastating trout ponds on his place, Seven Oaks. After the turtle was hooked, it put up a fight for more than half an hour. Although Mr. Rhead was successful in the end, he became exhausted. A short time later he suffered from his first attack of heart disease. Yesterday's was his second.[5]

Bibliography

David and Goliath from The Psalms of David[6]
Robin Hood and Marion in their Bower[7]
Softly Creeping and Lightly Dropping from Speckled Brook Trout[8]
  • Hillis, Nevel Dwight, ed. (1900). The Psalms of David. Illustrated and Decorated by Louis Rhead. Chicago: Fleming H. Revel Company.
  • Bunyan, John (1900). The Life and Death of Mr. Badman. Illustrated by George W. and Louis Rhead. London: W. Heinemann.
  • Defoe, Daniel (1900). The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Illustrated by Frederick and Louis Rhead. New York: R. H. Russell.
  • Rhead, Louis, ed. (1902). The Speckled Brook Trout. Introduction by Charles Hallock, Illustrated by Louis Rhead. New York: R. H. Russell.
  • Morris, William (translator) (1902). The History of Over Sea. Illustrated by George W. and Louis Rhead. New York: R. H. Russell. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  • Harris, William C. (1905). Rhead, Louis (ed.). The Basses-Freshwater and Marine. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1907). A Collection of Bookplate Designs. Boston: W. Porter Truesdell.
  • Hughes, Thomas (1911). Tom Brown's School Days[1]. Illustrated by Louis Rhead. New York: Harper and Brothers. {{cite book}}: External link in |title= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1912). Bold Robin Hood-And His Outlaw Band. New York: Harper & Brothers.
  • Bunyan, John (1912). Pilgrim's Progress-from this world to that which is to come. Embellished with over one hundred and twenty designs done by three brothers: George Woolliscroft Rhead, Frederick Rhead, Louis Rhead. New York: The Century Co. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • Crandall, Lathan A. (1914). Days in the Open. Decorations by Louis Rhead. New York: Fleming H. Revel Company.
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis (1915). Treasure Island [2]. Decorated and Illustrated by Louis Rhead. New York: Harper Brothers. {{cite book}}: External link in |title= (help)
  • The Arabian Nights Entertainments. Illustrated and Decorated by Louis Rhead. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1916.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Rhead, Louis (1916). American Trout Stream Insects-A Guide To Angling Flies and other Aquatic Insects Alluring to Trout. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers.
  • Rhead, Louis (1920). The Book of Fish and Fishing. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  • Rhead, Louis (1920). Fisherman's Lures and Game-Fish Food. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  • Rhead, Louis (1921). How To Fish The Dry Fly. Brooklyn, New York: Louis Rhead.
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis (1921). Kidnapped-Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 [3]. Illustrated by Louis Rhead. New York: Harper and Brothers. {{cite book}}: External link in |title= (help)

In the early 20th century, Rhead was a prolific contributor of angling articles in the sporting press--The American Angler, Outing Magazine, Field & Stream, and Forest and Stream[9]

  • Rhead, Louis (1907). "Vacation Angling for the Family". Outing Magazine. L (4). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1908). "Where to Find Trout and How to Catch Them". Outing Magazine. LII (2). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1908). "Winter Deep-Sea Fishing". Outing Magazine. LII (3). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1909). "Fall Fishing in the Atlantic Surf". Outing Magazine. LV (2). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1909). "Complete Angler in August". Outing Magazine. LIV (5). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1909). "How to Use A Dry Fly". Outing Magazine. LII (4). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1909). "Why Sea Fishing is Popular". Outing Magazine. LIV (1). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1909). "The Angler's Halcyon Days". Outing Magazine. LIV (3). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1909). "Winter Care of Fishing Tackle". Outing Magazine. LV (3). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1909). "September Sport with Rod and Reel". Outing Magazine. LIV (6). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1909). "Return of Weakfish, Tautog, Fluke and other Migratory Fishes". Outing Magazine. LIV (2). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1910). "Winter Deep-Sea Fishing". Outing Magazine. LV (4). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1910). "Tarpon Tackle". Field and Stream. 14 (10). {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1910). "The Invincible Mascalonge". Field and Stream. 14 (11). {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1910). "Casting for Muskellunge". Outing Magazine. LVI (3). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1915). "New Lures that are True to Life". Forest and Stream. 85. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1915). "Some Nature Lures for Summer & Fall Fishing". Forest and Stream. 85. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1915). "Why Nature Lures are Best for Good Sport". Forest and Stream. 85. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1915). "Three Best Nature Lures for Bass". Forest and Stream. 85. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1915). "Supplementary Notes Concerning Nature Lures". Forest and Stream. 85. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1915). "Trout Flies--Natural and Artificial". Forest and Stream. 85. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1916). "Silver Shiner & Golden Chub". Forest and Stream. 86. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1916). "Dry, Wet or Nature Fly-Which shall we offer?". Forest and Stream. 86. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1916). "Halcyon Angling Days in May". Forest and Stream. 86. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1916). "Evolution of Bait Angling". Forest and Stream. 86. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1916). "The Leap of the Game Fish". Forest and Stream. 86. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1916). "Surface Bait for Game Fish". Forest and Stream. 86. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1916). "American and British Angling Compared". Forest and Stream. 86. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1917). "Our Rainbows". Forest and Stream. 87. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1917). "The Finer Art of Trout Fishing (I)". Forest and Stream. 87. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1917). "The Finer Art of Trout Fishing (II)". Forest and Stream. 87. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1917). "How To Tie Leaders and Flies". Forest and Stream. 87. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1917). "Bait Fishing for Trout". Forest and Stream. 87. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1917). "Fishing for the Kingly Ouananiche". Forest and Stream. 87. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1917). "Bass as Gamey Fighters". Forest and Stream. 87. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1917). "Minnows as Bait for Bass and Trout". Forest and Stream. 87. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1917). "In the Haunts of Izaak Walton". Forest and Stream. 87. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1917). "My 'Foul Hooked' Muskie Experience". Forest and Stream. 87. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1917). "A Bass Bait for Late Season Fishing". Forest and Stream. 87. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1918). "Trout Insects for Early Fly Fishing". Forest and Stream. 88. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1918). "Improving the Angler's Equipment". Forest and Stream. 88. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1921). "Hot Weather Fly Fishing". The American Angler. VI (3): 143. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1922). "Downstream Dry-Fly Fishing". Forest and Stream. 92 (4). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1922). "Fishing from Bottom to Surface". Forest and Stream. 92 (5). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1922). "Tying the Fresh Water Shrimp". Forest and Stream. 92 (6). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1922). "Artificial Baits for Trout". Forest and Stream. 92 (7). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1922). "The Carp as a Gamey Food Fish". Forest and Stream. 92 (8). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1922). "The Metal Bodied Fly-Minnow". Forest and Stream. 92 (9). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1922). "The Evolution of the Trout Fly". Forest and Stream. 92 (11). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1922). "How to Skin & Mount a Fish". Forest and Stream. 92 (12). {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1924). "The Troubles of Spring Trout Fishing". Forest and Stream. 94. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1924). "Fishing in Brooks". Forest and Stream. 94. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1924). "Fishing the Evening Rise". Forest and Stream. 94. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1924). "Fly Fishing for the Gamey Little Trout Pickeral". Forest and Stream. 94. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1924). "Trout Fishing in Lakes". Forest and Stream. 94. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1924). "Live & Artificial Frogs as Bait". Forest and Stream. 94. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1924). "A Unique Way to Land the Great Northern Pike". Forest and Stream. 94. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1925). "The Bird Angler". Forest and Stream. 95. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1925). "Playing and Netting Big Trout on the Fly". Forest and Stream. 95. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1925). "The Habits of Trout and Where the Abide". Forest and Stream. 95. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1925). "Why They Don't Bite". Forest and Stream. 95. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  • Rhead, Louis (1925). "Denizens of the Deep". Forest and Stream. 95. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)

References

  1. ^ Rhead, Louis (1907). A Collection of Bookplate Designs. W. Porter Truesdell. pp. frontispiece. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |birthplace= ignored (help)
  2. ^ a b c d e f Scholz, Lynn (1985). "Louis Rhead's First Career". The American Fly Fisher. 12 (1): 18–25. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Rhead, Louis (1920). Fisherman's Lures and Game-Fish Food. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. frontispiece.
  4. ^ Schullery, Paul (1996). American Fly Fishing-A History. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press. pp. 93–94. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  5. ^ "Louis Rhead Obituary". New York Times. July 30, 1926. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ Hillis, Nevel Dwight, ed. (1900). The Psalms of David. Illustrated and Decorated by Louis Rhead. Chicago: Fleming H. Revel Company. p. 69.
  7. ^ Rhead, Louis (1912). Bold Robin Hood-And His Outlaw Band. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 233.
  8. ^ Rhead, Louis, ed. (1902). The Speckled Brook Trout. Introduction by Charles Hallock, Illustrated by Louis Rhead. New York: R. H. Russell. p. 114.
  9. ^ Ledlie, David B. (1983). "Louis Rhead and Forest and Stream". The American Fly Fisher. 10 (2): 22–25. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

Bernard Bumpus (1921–2004) was the leading authority on the Rhead family. In the 1980s Bumpus curated an exhibition at the Geffrye Museum in London, which included examples of Louis Rhead's flies. This exhibition, Rhead Artists and Potters, toured several UK Museums including the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Staffordshire. Bumpus hoped to take a version of the exhibition to the USA, but, despite American interest in the Rhead family, this project foundered.[4]

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