Ade Bethune
Ade Bethune | |
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| Born | Adélaide de Bethune January 12, 1914 |
| Died | May 1, 2002(aged 88) |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Education | Cooper Union |
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| Movement | Catholic social art |
Ade Bethune(January 12, 1914 – May 1, 2002) was an American liturgical artist. She was associated with theCatholic Worker Movement,and designed an early masthead of its publication, theCatholic Worker,first used in 1935. She later re-designed this in 1985, replacing one of the men with a woman.[1]
Bethune was an advocate of traditionaliconographyin theRoman Catholic Church.[2]She was inducted into theRhode Island Heritage Hall of Famein 1990.[3]
Life
[edit]BornBaronessAdélaide de Bethuneto a noble Belgian family, her parents were Gaston and MartheTerlinden.She emigrated with the family afterWorld War I.Her mother Marthe was daughter ofViscountTerlinden.
Career
[edit]Bethune volunteered her illustrations to improve the quality of theCatholic Workerwhen she was a nineteen-year-old art student, impressed with the work ofDorothy Day.This was preparation for her later illustration for Catholic liturgical works such asMy Sunday Missalin 1937, and similar works such asMy Lenten Missal.
De Bethune also worked closely with Graham Carey and with theCatholic Art Association,founded in 1937 bySister Esther Newport.[4][5]Beginning in the 1960s, she was the artistic director of the Terra Sancta Guild, a commercial firm that produced religious art works for many Christian denominations.
Social activism
[edit]Ade was interested in theCatholic Worker Movement's work with hospitality for the poor when she was an art student. She continued this interest throughout her life, and became interested in the issue of providing housing for the elderly, particularly the poor elderly. In 1969, she founded the Church Community Housing Corporation inNewport County, Rhode Island,to design and build housing. In 1991 she founded Star of the Sea to renovate a formerCarmeliteconvent into anintentional communityand state of the art housing for the elderly, where she lived until her death in 2002. She is buried at Portsmouth Abbey,Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
Artistic works
[edit]- Crucifix, St. Paulinus Parish,Clairton, Pennsylvania
- Design of St. Leo Church inSt. Paul, Minnesota,including revival of a central altar
- Altar chapel and stained glassoculusat theChapel + Cultural Center at Rensselaer
- Mosaic wall of the Baptistery,Church of the Angry Christ,Victorias City, Philippines[6]
- Mosaic murals and lacquer tabernacle in collaboration with the Czech architectAntonin Raymond,and Filipino American artist,Alfonso Ossorio,Chapel of Saint Joseph the Worker,Negros Island,Philippines[7]
Biography
[edit]- Judith Stoughton:Proud Donkey of Schaerbeek: Ade Bethune, Catholic Worker ArtistSt. Cloud, Minnesota,North Star Press of St. Cloud, 1988ISBN0-87839-051-0
- On-line short biography
- James A. MerollaWhere are they now? Ade Bethune,Catholic Workerartist
- Information from theCatholic Worker
Sources
[edit]- The Ade Bethune Collection
- The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day;illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg; introduction by Daniel Berrigan.ISBN0-06-061751-9
References
[edit]- ^Gneuhs, Geoffrey (May 3, 2008). "The Art of the Worker".Catholic Worker.LXXV:6.
- ^"Religion: Familiar Faces".Time.January 5, 1962. Archived fromthe originalon November 23, 2008.RetrievedApril 23,2010.
- ^"Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame: Ade Bethune, Inducted 1990".Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.Archivedfrom the original on February 3, 2020.RetrievedFebruary 3,2020.
- ^Price, Jay M. (2013).Temples for a Modern God: Religious Architecture in Postwar America.Oxford University Press.ISBN9780199925957.
- ^Harmon, Katharine E. (2013).There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, 1926-59.Liturgical Press.ISBN9780814662717.
- ^"Church of the Angry Christ".2 June 2006.Retrieved25 November2009.
- ^Helfrich & Whittaker, Kurt & William (2006).Crafting a Modern World, The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noemi Raymond.Princeton Architectural Press. p. 56.
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