John Wolcott Adams
{{Short description|American illustrator}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1874|10|07}}
| birth_place = Worcester, Massachusetts, US
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1925|06|24|1874|10|07}}
| death_place = New York, US
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| occupation = Illustrator
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|education = School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Art Students League of New York
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John Wolcott Adams (1874–1925) was an American illustrator.{{cite news |title=Andrew Wyeth Rekindles Interest In John Wolcott Adams With Exhibit |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB3307B83FC22A2&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |newspaper=Philadelphia Inquirer |date=September 20, 1998 |access-date=2011-04-12 }}
Biography
Adams was born on 7 November 1874 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He married Frances Pendleton Sheldon (1903–1920). John Wolcott Adams was the son of John Francis and Ellen Wilson Adams and descendant of a New England family. This family had produced two United States presidents. Adams was interested in the theatre, and he was able to design at least one stage setting that was designed for a 1923 Walter Hampden production.
He died in New York on June 24, 1925, of appendicitis.{{cite news|title=Adams, John Wolcott (1874-1925)|url=http://www.schoonoverstudios.com/howard-pyle-a-students/pyle-students-bios/7-adams-john-wolcott-1874-1925.html|date=7 January 2013|access-date=8 January 2013|archive-date=12 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312231910/http://www.schoonoverstudios.com/howard-pyle-a-students/pyle-students-bios/7-adams-john-wolcott-1874-1925.html|url-status=dead}}
Education
John Wolcott Adams studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and in 1898 he went to New York where he attended the Art Students League of New York classes.
Groups
Works
John Wolcott Adams contributed to the following periodicals:
In 1916, Adams, with Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, produced a colorful redraft of the 1660 Castello Plan map of New York City.
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- {{IMDb name|0011089}}
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Category:20th-century American illustrators
Category:Art Students League of New York alumni
Category:Deaths from appendicitis
Category:Artists from Worcester, Massachusetts
Category:School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts alumni
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