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Name and location of repository
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Title
Date(s)
- 1882-1951 (Creation)
Extent
2.5 linear feet (7 boxes of documents)
Name of creator
Biographical history
The landscape painter John Ottis Adams was born in 1851 in Amity, Indiana, a small town south of Indianapolis. He attended Wabash College in 1871, but left a year later for the South Kensington Art School in London to study under John Parker. Adams returned to Indiana in 1876, eventually settling in Muncie. In 1880 Adams returned to Europe, traveling to the Royal Academy in Munich to study with Gyula Bencz
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The first series, Personal and Professional Materials, includes business cards, clippings, a postcard from the artist Clifton Wheeler, small black and white reproductions of the J. Ottis Adams painting The Gleaners, 1886, and an anonymous painting of Mary Queen of Scots, as well as the Adams family's inventories of the collection. The second series, Exhibition Materials, consists of exhibition catalogues, announcements, and art association bulletins. The last series, Journals, includes journals with articles about J. Ottis Adams, Winifred Adams, and other artists of the Hoosier Group.
System of arrangement
The collection is arranged in three series: Personal and Professional Materials, Exhibition Materials, and Journals
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Conditions governing access
Collection is open for research.
Physical access
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder. Please contact the Archivist for more information.
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Finding aids
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Notes element
Specialized notes
- Citation: [Title of item], [date], [Container information], J. Ottis Adams Papers (M001), Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, IN.
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Description control element
Rules or conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
Sources used
Archivist's note
Processed by Eliza Sparacino
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Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Adams, J. Ottis (John Ottis), 1851-1927 (Subject)
- John Herron Art Institute (Subject)
- Society of Western Artists (Subject)
- Art Association of Indianapolis, Indiana (Subject)