biografía de Wayman Eldridge ADAMS (1883-1959)

Lugar de nacimiento: Muncie, IN

Direcciones: Los Angeles, 1916; NYC/Elizabethtown, NY

Profesión: Portrait painter

Estudios: John Herron AI; abroad with William Chase in Italy, and in Spain with Robert Henri.

Exposiciones: Muncie AA, 1910 (prize); NAD, 1914 (Proctor Prize), 1926 (prize), 1932 (prize); AIC, 1918 (Logan prize, med.); Richmond AA, 1915 (prize); Indiana Art Club, 1916 (prizes); Newport AA, 1918 (prize), 1925 (prize); Corcoran Gal., 1919-43; Hoosier Salon, 1925 (prize), 1926 (prize), 1929 (prize), 1931 (prize), 1935 (prize); Springfield AA, 1926 (prize); PAFA, 1929 (prize), 1933 (prize); Allied Artists Am., 1930 (med.); AWCS, 1930 (prize); SC, 1931 (prize), 1940 (prize); Carnegie Inst, 1943 (prize); Holland Soc., NY, 1933 (prizes, med.) Awards: Hon. degree, Dr. FA. Syracuse Univ., 1945.

Asociaciones: NA; AWCS; All. A. Am.; NIAL; Philadelphia WCC; Philadelphia Sketch Club; New York Soc. Painters; Philadelphia AC; SC; Indiana AC; NAC; Nat. Assn. Portrait Painters

Obra: AIC; Indiana State Library; Indianapolis City Hospital; Historic New Orleans Collection

Comentarios: Involved in mural decoration of Burdsall units in children's ward of Indianapolis City Hospital, 1914-15, a major undertaking involving some fifteen painters. He went to New Orleans for a while each year to paint portraits, 1920s-50s.

Fuentes: WW53; WW47. More recently, see Hughes, Artists of California, 13; Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 271; Complementary Visions, 50, 87.