Pauline Dohn Rudolph

• Name — Pauline Dohn Rudolph • Birth Name — Pauline Amalie Dohn • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois • Died — 1934 • Education — Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Académie Julian • Field — Painting • Spouse — (his death) Pauline Dohn Rudolph (1865–1934) was an American painter. She was also a founder of the Chicago Palette Club.

Dohn was born in Chicago in 1865. She studied art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where she studied with Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anschutz. She later moved to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian, studying with Boulanger and Lefebvre.

Returning to Chicago, she founded and exhibited at the Palette Club before accepting a teaching position at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Dohn exhibited at least four works at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago—the mural Industrial Arts for the Reception Room of the Illinois State Building, as well as paintings in the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building.

Dohn married Franklin Rudolph in 1901, with whom she had three children. She moved to California in 1933, where she died on June 19, 1934.

• Illustration — alt=Oil painting of a girl wearing a linen cap standing in front of a cottage window, looking away from the viewer. She is holding a large tray filled with pears. Pear-Time, 1895 • Illustration — alt=Oil painting of a woman in a high necked, long sleeved dress looking at herself in the mirror. Her hair is in a bun and she wears a brown hat with red flowers on the right side. A Village Belle, 1899 • Illustration — alt=Etching of four women in Ancient Greek attire. One sits weaving at a loom, one is standing with a drop spindle, and one sits watching another paint a jar. Two naked children sit and stand off to the left, measuring out lengths of thread. Mural: Industrial Arts, exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago • Illustration — alt=Faded etching of a woman in a dark dress holding an infant in a white gown, and two small girls looking at the baby What the Storks Brought, exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago