Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Title
Date(s)
- 1891-1967 (Creation)
Extent
1.42 (one document box and one oversize box)
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 J. Ottis Adams Papers Addition includes three scrapbooks containing clippings, ephemera, correspondence, and photographs of the artist’s home and studio. The first and second scrapbooks document the artist’s professional life between the periods of 1891-1927 and 1895-1904. The final scrapbook was assembled by the artist’s family and contains additional material and notes related to the artist’s life, dated between 1901 and 1967. A letter from the St. Louis World’s Fair Department of Art (1904) is also included.
System of arrangement
The addition is in original order.
Conditions of access and use elements
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Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright.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.
Languages of the material
Scripts of the material
Language and script notes
Finding aids
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Transfer by Martin Krause, Curator, on December 3, 2014.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
Related descriptions
Notes element
Specialized notes
- Citation: [Title of item], [date], [Container information], J. Ottis Adams Papers Addition (M009), Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, IN.
Alternative identifier(s)
Description control element
Rules or conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
Sources used
Archivist's note
Processed by Rebecca Denne
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Art Association of Indianapolis, Indiana (Subject)
- John Herron Art Institute (Subject)
- Society of Western Artists (Subject)