Daniel Rohn (1932–2021), born Marvin Daniel Rohn, was a lithographer, occasional painter, and photographer. Rohn received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1961, where he met fellow student Mary Grace Baker, and the two were married in 1954. He then earned his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale University School of Art in 1964. He was a graduate assistant to Gabor Peterdi in stone lithography and a technical assistant and printmaker at the Universal Limited Art Editions studio in Long Island, New York, where he printed for Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. In 1966, he began teaching at the Kent State School of Art and conducted the Master’s Program in Lithography until his retirement.
Rohn eventually left lithography for photography, and was part of a small but passionate movement interested in reviving platinum/palladium printing. This art form had died out when cheaper silver emulsions replaced the more expensive metals, but the technique imparted his black-and-white prints with an ethereal tone, warmth and depth far surpassing those of modern photos.
Each summer for decades, Rohn would drive his family from Ohio on camping holidays to various locations, including Salida, Colorado. After retiring in 1993, the Rohns relocated to Salida permanently in 1996. Rohn spent his retirement crossing the country photographing in Yellowstone, along the Oregon Trail, at the Edna St. Vincent Millay estate in New York and at numerous sites in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and North and South Carolina.
He exhibited his work widely for many decades; one of his pieces is part of the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and another graced the cover of a major edition of the collected poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay.