Adeline Valentine Pond Adams (1859–1948) was an American writer
and the wife of
Herbert Adams. The chief subjects of her writings were American fine artists and art history. She published at least seven texts. On December 14, 1930, she was awarded a Special Medal of Honor by the
National Sculpture Society
Founded in 1893, the National Sculpture Society (NSS) was the first organization of professional sculptors formed in the United States. The purpose of the organization was to promote the welfare of American sculptors, although its founding members ...
.
Biography
Adeline Valentine Pond was born in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
. She began her art studies at the
Massachusetts Normal Art School in 1880.
She met Herbert Adams in
Paris
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in 1887. She posed for a marble bust that was eventually exhibited at the
1893 Chicago World's Fair
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.
The couple married in 1889. Adams advocated for female sculptors including
Laura Gardin Fraser
Laura may refer to:
People
* Laura (given name)
* Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert
Places Australia
* Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula
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,
Evelyn Beatrice Longman
Evelyn Beatrice Longman (November 21, 1874 – March 10, 1954) was a sculptor in the U.S. Her allegorical figure works were commissioned as monuments and memorials, adornment for public buildings, and attractions at art expositions in early 20th ...
,
Janet Scudder
Janet Scudder (October 27, 1869 – June 9, 1940), born Netta Deweze Frazee Scudder, was an American sculptor and painter from Terre Haute, Indiana, who is best known for her memorial sculptures, bas-relief portraiture, and portrait medallions, ...
,
Bessie Porter Vonnoh,
Abastenia St. Leger Eberle
Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (April 6, 1878 – February 26, 1942) was an American sculptor known for her energetic, small bronze sculptures depicting poor immigrants on New York's City's Lower East Side. As an artist, Eberle had strong beliefs an ...
and
Anna Hyatt Huntington
Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (March 10, 1876 – October 4, 1973) was an American sculptor who was among New York City's most prominent sculptors in the early 20th century. At a time when very few women were successful artists, she had a thrivi ...
.
She also advocated for war memorials to be created by professional sculptors rather than mass-produced in factories.
Adams was a member of the Cornish (NH) Equal Suffrage League.
Works
Adams's seven published texts include:
* "The spirit of American sculpture"
* "Daniel Chester French, sculptor"
* "Childe Hassam"
* "John Quincy Adams Ward; An Appreciation"
* "Sylvia"
* "An Exhibition of American Sculpture"
* "Our medals and Our Medals"
In addition to art criticism, Adams also wrote poetry, including two collections of poetry about her deceased daughters.
See also
*
Clara Whitehill Hunt
*
Michael Ableman
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References
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1859 births
1948 deaths
Writers from Boston
American art critics
American art historians
Women art historians
American women historians
Historians from Massachusetts