Marilla Adams
{{Short description|Canadian artist, 1864–1966}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Marilla Adams
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| birth_date = {{Birth year|1864}}
| birth_place = Zorra, Canada West
| death_date = {{death date and age|1966|11|2|1864|mf=y}}
| death_place = Montréal, Quebec, Canada
| nationality = Canadian
| education = Alma College, Ontario School of Art, School of Design, New York, Art Association of Montreal
| field = Textiles, Wood carving
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Marilla Adams (1864 – November 2, 1966) was a Canadian artist.
Biography
Adams was born in 1864 in Zorra, Canada West.{{cite web |title=Adams, Marilla |url=https://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=5452 |website=Artist Database |publisher=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative |accessdate=March 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908000719/http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=5452 |archive-date=September 8, 2015 |url-status=live }} She attended Alma College, a women's college in St. Thomas, Ontario. There she studied under Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith along with Cornelia Saleno and Eva Brook Donly.{{cite web |last1=Reaney |first1=James Stewart |title=My London: An exhibit marking Alma College’s contribution to the arts runs Sept. 9 to Dec. 20 {{!}} The London Free Press |url=https://lfpress.com/2013/08/28/my-london-an-exhibit-marking-alma-colleges-contribution-to-the-arts-runs-sept-9-to-dec-20/wcm/02a0af3a-d96a-d3bb-c68a-97bb077ffb9a |website=The London Free Press |accessdate=March 16, 2019 |language=en |date=August 28, 2013}} She continued her education at the Ontario School of Art, the School of Design in New York, and the Art Association of Montreal.
Adams taught for a time at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, before traveling to Europe. Around the beginning of World War I, she returned to Canada. She settled in Montréal, Quebec, where she taught weaving and wood carving to wounded soldiers. In January 1926, she reviewed the work of charitable organizations in the city, and spoke on behalf of the ones she felt did the most to "alleviate handicaps of the underprivileged".{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29795384/gave_address_on_underprivileged/ |title=Gave Address on Underprivileged |work=Montreal Gazette |date=January 11, 1926 |access-date=March 22, 2019 |author= |via=newspapers.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324021321/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29795384/gave_address_on_underprivileged/ |archive-date=March 24, 2019 |url-status=live }}
File:Frederic Martlett Bell-Smith-Three Artists, c. 1883.jpg, {{circa|1883}}, which depicts three of Bell-Smith's students at Alma College.]]
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Category:OCAD University alumni
Category:Canadian women artists