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John Ottis Adams BiographyBirth: Jul. 8, 1851Amity, 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 early John Ottis Adams paintings 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 artists 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. |
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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. After studying in England and Germany, Adams returned to Indiana and
opened an art school in Muncie, 1887. In 1896, Adams and Steele's had a two-man exhibition in Saint Louis, and in 1904, John Ottis Adams works were 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 John Ottis Adams paintings
there until his retirement in 1906. The painter 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. |
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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." | ||||||
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