Adeline Pond Adams
{{short description|American art historian}}
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Adeline Valentine Pond Adams (1859–1948) was an American writer{{cite book|title=New Hampshire's Cornish Colony|author=Fern K. Meyers, James B. Atkinson|year=2005|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=0-7385-3753-5}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr98-18184 |title=Works by or about Adeline Pond Adams in libraries (WorldCat catalog) |accessdate=April 21, 2008 |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520033219/http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr98-18184 |url-status=dead }} On December 14, 1930, she was awarded a Special Medal of Honor by the National Sculpture Society. In 1947, she was the first recipient of the Society's Herbert Adams Memorial Medal.
Biography
Adeline Valentine Pond was born in Boston. She began her art studies at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in 1880.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary00morg|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary00morg/page/5 5]|quote=Adeline Valentine Pond Adams.|title=Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists|last=Morgan|first=Ann Lee|date=2008-01-01|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195373219|language=en}}
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She met Herbert Adams in Paris in 1887. She posed for a marble bust that was eventually exhibited at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&pg=PA27|title=The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art|last=Marter|first=Joan M.|date=2011-01-01|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195335798|language=en}} The couple married in 1889.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jr6vNLLYMgC&pg=PA360|title=American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born before 1865|last=N.Y.)|first=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York|last2=Tolles|first2=Thayer|last3=Dimmick|first3=Lauretta|last4=Hassler|first4=Donna J.|date=1999-01-01|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=9780870999147|language=en}} Adams advocated for female sculptors including Laura Gardin Fraser, Evelyn Beatrice Longman, Janet Scudder, Bessie Porter Vonnoh, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle and Anna Hyatt Huntington. 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.{{Cite news|url=http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20160121/LOCALVOICES06/160129811|title=Looking Back with Aurore Eaton: The Cornish Equal Suffrage League takes action - New Hampshire|newspaper=UnionLeader.com|access-date=2017-01-18|archive-date=February 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202084937/http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20160121/LOCALVOICES06/160129811|url-status=dead}}
Works
- [https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/72502 The spirit of American sculpture]
- [https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/75047 The Amouretta landscape, and other stories]
- "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
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References
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Category:American art historians