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John Ottis Adams
Birth: Jul. 8, 1851
Amity,
Johnson County,
Indiana, USA
Death: Jan. 28, 1927
Indianapolis,
Marion County,
Indiana, USA
John Ottis Adams was the best known as a
nature-loving artist. A landscape painter
who was a key member of the Hoosier Group of
Indiana painters, Adams was, along with
William Forsyth and Theodore Steele,
committed to depicting his own native
region. Typically their early work was
peasant genre in dark tonalism, but in the
1890s, it became much lighter in the manner
of the impressionists, and these artists
were for many years the premier
impressionist painters of the Midwest. |
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Much of their subject matter
was along the Muscatatuck and Whitewater
Rivers and around the Indiana communities of
Brookville and Vernon.
Adams was born in Amitz, Indiana, and in the
mid 1880s, went to Munich, Germany where
John Ottis Adams followed the regular routine of the Royal
Academy. His companion there was Theodore
Steele. Adams also studied with J. Frank
Currier at Schleisheim, Germany and with
John Parker in London. After studying in
England and Germany, Adams returned to
Indiana and opened an art school in Muncie,
1887. |
In Indiana, the "Hoosier Group's" first
significant recognition came in December,
1894 with an exhibition in Lorado Taft's
studio in the Chicago Athenaeum building. An
excerpt from the catalog read: "These men
were isolated from their fellow artists,
they were surrounded by apparently the most
unpromising material, yet they set
themselves to their thankless task right
manfully--and this exhibition demonstrates
the power of the artist's eye to find floods
of color, graceful forms, and interesting
compositions everywhere."
In 1896, Adams and Steele's had a two-man
exhibition in Saint Louis, and in 1904,
their work was in the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition. |
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He was instrumental in the establishment of
the John Herron Art Institute in 1901, and
was an instructor of drawing and painting
there until his retirement in 1906. John
Ottis Adams married Winifred Brady Adams in 1898. Adams
divided his time among homes in Southern
Indiana, Michigan, and Florida, accompanied
many times by fellow artist and friend, Otto
Stark.
Source:
Wilbur Peat, "Pioneer Painters of Indiana"
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
A landscape painter who was a key member of
the Hoosier Group of Indiana painters, John
Ottis Adams was, along with William Forsyth
and Theodore Steele, committed to depicting
his own native region. Typically their early
work was peasant genre in dark tonalism, but
in the 1890s, it became much lighter in the
manner of the impressionists, and these
artists were for many years the premier
impressionist painters of the Midwest.
Much of their subject matter was along the
Muscatatuck and Whitewater Rivers and around
the Indiana communities of Brookville and
Vernon. |
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Adams was born in Amitz, Indiana, and in the mid 1880s, went to Munich, Germany where
John Ottis Adams followed the regular routine of the Royal Academy. His companion there was Theodore Steele. Adams also studied with J. Frank Currier at Schleisheim, Germany and with John Parker in London. In Indiana, the
Hoosier Group's first significant
recognition came in December, 1894 with an
exhibition in Lorado Taft's studio in the
Chicago Athenaeum building. An excerpt from
the catalog read: "These men were isolated
from their fellow artists, they were
surrounded by apparently the most
unpromising material, yet they set
themselves to their thankless task right
manfully--and this exhibition demonstrates
the power of the artist's eye to find floods
of color, graceful forms, and interesting
compositions everywhere."
In 1896, Adams and Steele's had a two-man
exhibition in Saint Louis, and in 1904,
their work was in the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition.
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