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Nationality
  
Role
  
Artist

Name
  
Ade Bethune


Movement
  
Catholic social art

Known for
  
woodcuts, illustration

Education
  
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Full Name
  
Adelaide de Bethune

Born
  
January 12, 1914 (
1914-01-12
)
Schaerbeek, Belgium

Died
  
May 1, 2002, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, United States

Books
  
Eye Contact with God Through Pictures: A Clip Book of Pictures from the Ade Bethune Collection, Work

Ade Bethune (January 12, 1914 – May 1, 2002) was a Catholic liturgical artist.

Contents

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She was associated with the Catholic Worker Movement, and designed an early masthead of its publication, the Catholic Worker, first used in 1935. She later re-designed this in 1985, replacing one of the men with a woman.

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Bethune was an advocate of traditional iconography.

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She is buried at Portsmouth Abbey, Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

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Early life

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Bethune was born Adélaide de Bethune, Baroness, to a noble Belgian family. Her parents, Gaston and Marthe (Terlinden), emigrated with the family after World War I. Her mother Marthe was daughter of Viscount Terlinden.

Career beginnings

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Ade volunteered her illustrations to improve the quality of the Catholic Worker when she was a nineteen-year-old art student, impressed with the work of Dorothy Day. This was preparation for her later illustration for Catholic liturgical works such as 'My Sunday Missal' in 1937, and similar works such as 'My Lenten Missal'.

Bethune also worked closely with Graham Carey and with the Catholic Art Association, founded in 1937 by Sister Esther Newport.

Terra Sancta Guild

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

Ade was interested in the Catholic 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 in Newport County, Rhode Island, to design and build housing. In 1991 she founded 'Star of the Sea' to renovate a former Carmelite convent into an intentional community and state of the art housing for the elderly, where she lived until her death in 2002.

Artistic Works

  • Crucifix, St. Paulinus Parish, Clairton, Pennsylvania
  • Design of St. Leo Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, including revival of a central altar
  • Altar chapel and stained glass oculus at the Chapel + Cultural Center at Rensselaer
  • Mosaic wall of the Baptistery, Church of the Angry Christ, Victorias City, Philippines
  • Mosaic murals and lacquer tabernacle in collaboration with the Czech architect Antonin Raymond, and Filipino American artist, Alfonso Ossorio, Chapel of Saint Joseph the Worker, Negros Island, Philippines
  • Biography

  • Judith Stoughton: Proud Donkey of Schaerbeek: Ade Bethune, Catholic Worker Artist St. Cloud, Minnesota, North Star Press of St. Cloud, 1988 ISBN 0-87839-051-0
  • On-line short biography
  • James A. Merolla Where are they now? Ade Bethune, Catholic Worker artist
  • Information from the Catholic Worker
  • References

    Ade Bethune Wikipedia