Wilbur G. Adam

Adam was born in the Mount Auburn district of Cincinnati in 1898. He was one of five children of German immigrant and shoemaker Jacob Adam and his wife Eleanor.{{Cite web|url=https://drc.libraries.uc.edu/handle/2374.UC/534646|title=Cincinnati Birth and Death Records, 1865-1912|last=Adam|first=Carl|date=23 July 1898|access-date=10 March 2016}}

He graduated from Cincinnati's Hughes High School in 1916 where he was named "Best Artist".{{Cite book|url=https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/31/9c/f6/319cf66a01163e4a583925892482a6a7.jpg|title=Hughes Annual - 1916|publisher=Hughes High School|year=1916|page=15}}

Adam began his art training at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1912 while a high school student and later while working part time at United States Printing and Lithograph Company in Norwood, Ohio.{{Cite book|title=Wilbur George Adam Enrolment Card - Art Academy of Cincinnati|publisher=Cincinnati Art Museum Archives}} He studied under many famous Cincinnati artists such as Herman Wessel (1878–1969), James Roy Hopkins (1877–1969), Lewis Henry Meakin (1850–1917), Frank Duveneck (1848–1919) and Caroline Lord (1860–1927).

In 1917 he and a group of young artists from the Art Academy of Cincinnati including Bill Bollman, George Fetick, Carl Hasz, Arthur Helwig, John Holmer and Dick Sanders started a communal studio in downtown Cincinnati on the south side of Third Street, between Walnut and Main. They called it Russet Studio.{{Cite news|title=Russet Studio: a story of Cincinnati's 'Greenwich Village'|last=Adam|first=Wilbur G.|date=Jan 1967|publisher=Cincinnati Art Club|newspaper=The Dragonfly}}

In September 1918, Adam travelled to Stearns, Kentucky with Art Academy of Cincinnati classmate Frank Harmon Myers for a sketching trip. Myers and Adam later exhibited their work together at Traxel Galleries in Cincinnati and Adam later exhibited his Kearns paintings in the eastern US, Chicago Art Institute and Cincinnati Art Museum.

He joined the Cincinnati Art Club in 1919.

In 1921 he won second prize in the Chaloner Paris Scholarship competition of the National Academy Museum and School of New York City.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3772169/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=Cincinnatians win prizes|newspaper=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=24 June 1921|page=11|access-date=2016-03-10}} He was a guest artist in 1921 and again in 1929 at the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation at Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.

In 1923 he and fellow Art Academy of Cincinnati student, Arthur Helwig, travelled to the Estes Park, Colorado and the Rocky Mountain National Park where the pair focused on landscape painting for a summer.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eiselefineart.com/artistpage.php?artistId=1368&artist=Arthur%2520L.%2520Helwig|title=Arthur L. Helwig - artist biography - EiseleFineArt|website=www.eiselefineart.com|access-date=2016-04-05}} In the summer of 1924 he took a seven-week trip to California, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and Rocky Mountains.{{Cite news|url=https://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4873736/wilbur_adam_travels_to_california_1924/|title=The Week in Art Circles|last=M.R.C.|date=7 September 1924|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}}

In 1925 he set up a studio in Chicago where he received numerous commissions for portraiture work.{{Cite news|url=https://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4746536/1925_watercolor_exhibtion_wilbur/|title=The Week in Art Circles|last=M.R.C.|date=28 June 1925|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=63}} In 1925, he won the Art Institute of Chicago's Peabody Prize for The Little Dancer.{{Cite news|title=Chicago Arts Awards, Cash and medals for sculptures and paintings|date=29 October 1925|work=The Sun (New York)}}{{Cite web|url=http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201925%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201925%20Grayscale%20-%205786.pdf|title=Sculptors win chief award|publisher=New York Evening Post, 29 October 1925|access-date=11 March 2016}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-90100/compilation-of-published-sources?itemId=90127086&action=showRecord|title=The New International Year Book, 1925|publisher=Dodd, Mead And Company}}

In the summer of 1927 he travelled to Glacier National Park and was joined for a few weeks by fellow Cincinnati painter, Matthew A. Daly.{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4863285/wilbur_adam_and_m_daly_in_glacier_1927/|title=The Week in Art Circles|last=Alexander|first=Mary L.|date=21 August 1927|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}} With his landscape paintings, Adam revealed himself as a "colorist of distinction as well as an artist who can command a view of stupendous subjects." His paintings, "realistic to a degree, have a vividness that is almost startling."{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3772283/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=The Week in Art Circles|newspaper=The Cincinnati Enquirer|date=3 March 1929|page=77|access-date=2016-03-10}} He travelled again to the West in 1928 with Cincinnati colleague, Wallace Hoess. During his visit he would make small paintings of scenes on the spot and take them back to his studio to paint over the winter.{{Cite news|url=https://au.pinterest.com/pin/411938697148541392/|title=Artist Visits Park|date=23 July 1928|work=Lethbridge Herald|page=5}}

After living in Chicago for nearly 25 years as an illustrator, he returned to Cincinnati in 1951 and established a studio on Highland Avenue. During this time he did a significant body of work for Standard Publishing and Treasure Chest{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/searchNew/?q=wilbur%20g.%20adam|title=Search for Wilbur G. Adam|website=Grand Comics Database}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.1faith1hope1love.org/news/a-lost-treasure/|title=Lost treasures {{!}} 1FHL News|website=www.1faith1hope1love.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-27}} as an illustrator of Biblical books and publications,{{Cite book|url=https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=QRohAQAAIAAJ&rdid=book-QRohAQAAIAAJ&rdot=1|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1955: July-December|publisher=Library of Congress. Copyright Office|year=1956|pages=1413}} including Christmas Joy (1955), Prayer Time (1955), Precious Promises (1955) Word of Cheer (1955), Life and Customs in Jesus' Time (1957) and Favorite Psalms (1960).

After returning to Cincinnati, Adam filled his many illustration commissions, and also painted portraits, particularly of institutional and business leaders. His work had a decided illustrative quality. Using bright colors and a realistic technique, Adam's paintings reflected his great skill and experience as an illustrator.

He served as president of the Professional Artists of Cincinnati in 1956-58{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/3776589/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=Reception|date=18 May 1957|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}} and president of the Cincinnati Art Club from 1965 to 1967.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cincinnatiartclub.com/cac-management.html|title=Past Presidents Cincinnati Art Club|website=Cincinnati Art Club|access-date=2016-03-10}}

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Adam was an invited exhibitor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the St. Louis Art Museum and the Cincinnati Art Museum.

All-Illinois Society of Fine Art Annual 1926{{Cite news|title=All-Illinois Art|last=Towne|first=Arietta Wimer|date=15 October 1926|work=The Oak Parker|page=24}}

Art Institute of Chicago

• American Annual, 1924 (Still Life: Vegetables), 1925 (The Little Dancer; The Bronze Plate; and Spruce Canyon, Estes Park, Colorado), 1927 (The Elevated){{Cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/research/exhibition-history|title=Exhibition History|website=The Art Institute of Chicago|access-date=2016-03-18}}
• Chicago & Vicinity 1926 (Jackson Boulevard, Maurice Tabard and Real Boys), 1930 (Saucer Burial from Porgy & Bess), 1931 (Lantern Fishermen), 1933 (Gustave Ahrenhold)

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, American Annual, 1927

Chicago Galleries Association

• Exhibition of Paintings, 1930. "The portrait of a girl in a red dress, Ruth,…is a beautifully handled portrait and exquisite in its least details."{{Cite news|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1930/12/07/page/106/article/display-ad-93-no-title|title=Brilliant Exhibits Open Here|last=Jewett|first=Eleanor|date=7 December 1930|work=Chicago Tribune|page=Part 9, page 6}}
• Portraits by Members, 1932{{Cite news|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1932/09/23/page/15/article/new-lounging-pajamas-stifle-urge-to-roam|title=Hoosier Art Gallery Opens Fall Season|last=Jewett|first=Eleanor|date=23 September 1932|work=Chicago Tribune|page=1}}
• Exhibition, 1952{{Cite book|url=http://www.illinoisart.org/|title=Wilbur G. Adam|last=Dryer|first=Joel|publisher=Illinois Historical Art Project|others=Unpublished compilation|location=Chicago}}

Cincinnati Art Club

• Annual Exhibition, 1919. "Frank Myers and Wilbur Adam are two of the youngest members of the club in years, but not in importance as artists…Adam's fine draftsmanship and regard for color values are well displayed in his In the Junk Shop and Alford of the Argonne, a portrait of an Indian youth who is a student at the Art Academy. He is shown wrapped in a native blanket."{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4637347/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=The Week in Art Circles|date=7 December 1919|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=64}}
• 26th Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1924. Traxel Galleries. Exhibited Before Dusk.{{Cite news|url=https://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4746405/26th_exhibition_of_painting_and/|title=The Week in Art Circles|date=13 April 1924|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=70}}
• Annual Exhibition, 1927. New Art Center, starting 12 November. "When contemplating advancement in art, perhaps Wilbur Adam has made the greatest strides. We sight his Glacier Park paintings for their fine qualities and handsome arrangements. Particularly picturesque is The Hill Farm, where he has obtained a fine tonality." Exhibited Mountain and Meadow Glacier Park and The Hill Farm.{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4637183/cincinnati_art_club_annual_1927/|title=The Week in Art Circles|last=Alexander|first=Mary T.|date=20 November 1927|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}}
• Fall Opening Exhibition, 1959. Exhibited Daguerreotype.{{Cite news|title=No Thumb-Titling Here|last=Yeiser|first=Frederick|date=4 October 1959|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}}
• Fall Opening Exhibition, 1963. "Wilbur Adam has drawn Don Quixote after his heroic combat with the fierce windmill; his nag Rozinante sprawled upside down, and Sancho Panza in fright on his donkey."{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/3776732/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=Art Club Opens|last=Darrack|first=Arthur|date=6 October 1963|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}}

Cincinnati Art Museum

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• Annual Exhibition of American Art, 1919. "Wilbur Adam shows two oils, a portrait, revealing a good likeness of his colleague, Charles Locke, and an excellent still life, a brown teaport and a copper plate composed in a conventional manner but very spirited in handling, which is at once broad and yet so unaffectedly natural."{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4637310/cincy_art_museum_1919/|title=The Week in Art Circles|date=22 June 1919|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}}
• Annual Exhibition of American Art, 1923. Exhibited Still Life.{{Cite news|url=https://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4746316/cincinnati_art_museum_1923_exhibition/|title=The Week in Art Circles|last=M.R.C|date=17 June 1923|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}}
• Annual Exhibition of American Art 1924-1928
• Exhibition of the Women's Art Club, 1923{{Cite news|url=https://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4746127/1923_cincinnati_art_musuem_womens/|title=The Week in Art Circles|last=M.R.C.|date=18 February 1923|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=80}}
• Annual Exhibition (Water Colors), 1925. "Wilbur Adam's group, which included two portraits, a difficult think in water color, is unusually fine. His Studio Interior is extremely well done, its small still life carefully rendered, and both the portrait heads are fine, strong and definite and full of character."
• Spring Exhibition, 1928. Adam's Roselle, a portrait of a young woman dressed in a fancy costume, has excellent qualities, besides its technical brilliance... The Elevated ... is a fine animated, pulsing record of a personal observation.{{Cite news|url=https://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4635799/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=The Week in Art Circles|last=Alexander|first=Mary L.|date=17 June 1928|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=75}}{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/image/?spot=3772290|title=The Week in Art Circles|last=Alexander|first=Mary L.|date=3 June 1928|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=82}}
• Portraits of Present Day Cincinnatians, 1933. Exhibited portrait of Dana Dawes.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3776616/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=The Week in Art Circles|last=Alexander|first=Mary L.|date=19 February 1933|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=47}}
• Exhibition of Work by Teachers and Former Students, Art Academy 1938

Cincinnati Art Galleries

• Panorama of Cincinnati Art IV, 1989. The Guitar Player on exhibition.{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4656130/panorama_of_cincinnati_art_iv_1989/|title=Panorama of Cincinnati Art IV|date=26 November 1989|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=53}}
• Panorama of Cincinnati Art X, 1995{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4656113/panorama_of_cincinnati_art_x/|title=Panorama of Cincinnati Art X|date=10 December 1995|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=51}}
• Panorama of Cincinnati Art XI, 1996{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/3776602/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=Panorama of Cincinnati Art|date=13 December 1996|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=112}}

Corcoran Gallery of Art Biennial, 1926

Dayton Art Institute, 1925. Exhibited Portrait of Arthur Helwig.{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/3776650/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=The Week in Art Circles|date=30 August 1925|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}}

Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation

• Members' Works, 1922. "Wilbur G. Adam uses (color) to good advantage in landscape and his Antique Dealer is one of the best figures."{{Cite news|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1922-11-26/ed-1/seq-54/|title=Random Impressions of Current Exhibitions|date=26 November 1922|work=New-York Tribune|pages=6|issn=1941-0646|access-date=2016-03-27}}

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Milwaukee Art Museum

Nebraska Art Association Annual 1926, 1928

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

• Annual, 1925
• Annual Watercolors, 1927

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Sesquicentennial, 1926

Professional Artists of Cincinnati

• Exhibition at Pogues, 1956. Exhibited portrait of John Terrell.{{Cite news|title=Assortment of Art Displayed at Downtown Store's Gallery|last=Alexander|first=Mary L.|date=22 Jan 1956|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}}
• Rollman's Swifton Exhibition, 1957
• Exhibition at Pogues, 1958. Exhibited Portrait of a Girl.{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/3772316/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=City Artists Unite in Stimulating Show; Diverse Talents Shown|last=Alexander|first=Mary L.|date=2 February 1958|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}}
• Annual Exhibit, 1959{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4636876/professional_artists_of_cincinnati/|title=Annual Exhibition|date=18 Jan 1959|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}}

St. Louis Art Museum, American Annual, 1926

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"Mr. Adam studied in the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and is now numbered among its most successful graduates. The present collection includes some of his most recent work. There are thirty-four subjects, many of them inspired by Cincinnati land-marks. The price range is from $10 to $60."{{Cite news|url=https://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/3772130/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=An Exhibition of Paintings and Monotypes by Wilbur George Adam|date=22 October 1922|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=100}} Exhibited 34 paintings including Monastery Road, Fountain Square, The Red House and Brick Barges.{{Cite news|url=https://pinterest.com/pin/411938697147457475/|title=Sketches of Cincinnati are on Exhibition|last=Alexander|first=Mary L.|date=October 1922|work=Cincinnati Times Star}}

One man exhibition, 14–26 April. "There is something very sound about Mr. Adam's painting, and a definite feeling of good draftsmanship and understanding. His exhibition includes a variety of subject – landscapes, portraits, still life and figure studies. His landscapes were painted last summer at Estes Park, Colo., where he spent several months. One of the large landscapes, which he calls Entrance to Spruce Canyon, is perhaps the handsomest. It is a dramatic rendering of purple lights and brilliant sunshine. The warm rays of the sun, bursting through the clouds for just a moment, have turned everything to gold, and the cool, purple shadows of the trees and rocks give strong contrast. Near Estes Village, a smaller landscape that stands out in the group, is a sparkling rendering of sky and rich luminous mountains that have fine feeling of mass and distance. Of his four or five portraits, the one of a young man, Clarence is the finest. It is a good likeness, well drawn and painted surely and simply, with no struggle for effect, but depending solely on its fine draftsmanship and firm handling."{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4706991/traxel_galleries_one_man_show_april/|title=The Week in Art Circles|last=M.R.C.|date=20 April 1924|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=70}}

A collection of about 30 oils, water colors, and monotypes held in the Art Gallery. "A number of the pictures have been on exhibition at Traxel's in Cincinnati, at the Cincinnati Art Museum and at the Cincinnati Art Club Exhibitions. Several have also been shown in Columbus and at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania."{{Cite news|title=Adam's Pictures are on Exhibition|date=5 November 1924|work=Hamilton Evening Journal|page=6}}

112 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati. One man show on Glacier Park and Estes Park paintings for two weeks from 30 April 1928. "Mr Adam has taken a high flight, choosing wide horizons and extreme panoramic views. As a landscapist, he has analyzed these views....and they are excellent documents...built up with great consideration for mass formation and stand the test of scale.. Mr. Adam…has overstepped the bounds of more conventional landscape with such a showing." Featured paintings include: Spruce Canyon, Estes Park, Two Medicine Country, Slope of Appistoki Peak, Mt Henry, Appistoki Creek, St. Mary's Lake, On the Mt. Henry Trail, Near Twin Falls and Going to the Sun Mountain.{{Cite news|url=https://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4636909/closson_galleries_exhibition_of_glacier/|title=The Week in Art Circles|last=Alexander|first=Mary T.|date=29 April 1928|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer}}

112 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati. One man show for two weeks from 4 March 1929. "Mr Adam reveals himself as a colorist of distinction as well as an artist who can command a panoramic view of stupendous subjects – subjects which are honestly seen and rendered with uncommon courage. The paintings, realistic to a degree, have a vividness that is almost startling." Paintings exhibited include: Baring Falls, Swiftcurrent Valley, Early Morning Citadel Peak, Swiftcurrent Falls at Midday, View from Morgan Pass and Rainy Day at Mount Wilbur.{{Cite news|url=http://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/3772283/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=The Week in Art Circles|last=Alexander|first=Mary L.|date=3 March 1929|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=77}}

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220 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Two-man exhibition with Byron Boyd, to 25 January.{{Cite news|url=https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/81/5f/fe/815ffe1e7d38d5c7366f76610379b4bc.jpg|title=The Art of Byron Boyd and Wilbur Adam Shown|last=Vickerman|first=Tom|date=14 Jan 1930|publisher=The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World|page=7}} "Here again is a contemporary American artist standing on his own feet and painting in his own way uninfluenced by the novelties which so beset this century. Mr. Adam has joined the increasing band of painters who are finding the grandeurs and beauties of the west and northwest paintable. He shows a number of magnificent mountain pictures… When he leaves the mountain and comes into lower places his brush is equally able."{{Cite news|url=https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/5e/a9/9f/5ea99f63df82d621761de5ec4c0fc46b.jpg|title=Boyd and Adam Mingle Sanity With Their Modern Art|last=Jewett|first=Eleanor|date=January 1930|work=Chicago Daily Herald}} Some of the landscape paintings exhibited were: Swiftcurrent Falls, Baring Falls, Old Man's Lake, Appistoki Peak, Rising Wolf Mountain, New Twin Falls. Other paintings were The Hill Farm, Turn in the Road, White Peonies, Bronze Plate, The Elevated, The Little Dancer, Harriet Dawes, Clare and Gertrude and Roselle.

He had a two-main show with Grant Wood, 20 May to 9 June in Ames, Iowa. "Wood's portrait of the pioneer, John D. Turner, won first prize at the Iowa state fair last year, and his House in Munich, exhibited here last fall, won the first prize offered last year by the Iowa Federation of Women's clubs. Adam is a Peabody prize winner at the Art Institute in Chicago." Two months after the show, Wood painted his iconic American Gothic.{{Cite news|title=Paintings of Iowa Artist on Display|date=20 May 1930|work=Ames Daily Tribune Times|page=7}}

One-man show in November.{{Cite news|title=Wilbur Adam|date=18 November 1930|work=The Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World|page=4}}

220 North Michigan Avenue. Four young Chicago artists: Karl Brandner, Wilbur Adam, Gasper Ruffolo and C. Warner Williams (a sculptor).{{Cite news|title=Group of Four|date=28 January 1933|work=Chicago Daily News|page=7}}{{Cite news|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1933/10/01/page/97/article/cousin-eve-finds-worlds-fair-center-of-social-whirlpool|title=Local Artists on Parade on Chicago Galleries Association|last=Jewett|first=Eleanor|date=1 October 1933|work=Chicago Tribune}}

Wilbur G. Adam Retrospective. "Wilbur Adam is an old-fashioned portraitist, presently in a retrospective exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Club, and his work has the quiet, insistent pride of a man certain of his technique and the grounds to which he applies it, as well he may be."{{Cite news|url=https://cincinnati.newspapers.com/clip/4797420/cincinatti_art_club_retrospective_on/|title=Dreams verses Reality|last=Darrack|first=Arthur|date=21 April 1963|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|page=105}}

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Adam's work continues to appear at auctions and in exhibitions. From 2003 to 2004, Gypsy Girl was on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum as part of its exhibition entitled Exotic and Picturesque People and Places.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/pg/galleries/exotic/pages/2002-3.15.8_CAM.html |title=Exotic and Picturesque People and Places - Extraordinary Gifts |date=2003-12-30 |access-date=2016-03-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031230172008/http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/pg/galleries/exotic/pages/2002-3.15.8_CAM.html |archive-date=December 30, 2003 }}

The Cincinnati-based auction house [http://cowansauctions.com/search.aspx?term=wilbur+adam Cowan's Auction] has auctioned nine paintings by Adam since 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cowanauctions.com/|title=Cowan's Auctions}} Adam's Portrait of a Young Man was auctioned by the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 2014.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artacademy.edu/hyde-park-auction/auction-catalog.pdf|title=Auction to benefit the Art Academy of Cincinnati|date=31 May 2014|access-date=11 March 2016}} Mountain Landscape, 1927 was auctioned by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers of Denver in 2014.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lesliehindman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/SALE_290.pdf|title=Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Denver Summer Auction|access-date=11 March 2016}}

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