Adele Williams (February 24, 1868 – 1952) was an American artist who was one of the earliest Impressionist painters in Virginia.[1]
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| Born | February 24, 1868 Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | 1952 (aged 83–84) |
| Alma mater | Cooper Union Art Students League of New York Académie Julian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Impressionism |
Biography
editAdele Williams was born in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of John H. Williams.[2] Graduating high school at the age of 15, she went to New York in 1886 to study at the Woman's Art School of Cooper Union and the Art Students' League.[2] She also studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, where she won the Prix Concours medal.[3]
Williams worked in oil, watercolor, pastel, and mezzotint, painting landscapes, still lifes, and harbor and street scenes in an Impressionist style. She exhibited work at the Paris Salon[3] during her stay in France, and after her return to the United States she showed at the American Watercolor Society, the Art Club of Philadelphia, and elsewhere.[2] A number of her portraits are cataloged by the Catalogue of American Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, including a 1902 self-portrait and a 1903 portrait of Ellen Axson Wilson, the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson.[4] Her portrait of judge John W. Riely hangs in the Virginia Supreme Court,[5] and her portrait of Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury is owned by the University of Virginia.[6]
References
edit- ^ Kelly, James C.; Rasmussen, William Meade Stith (2000). The Virginia Landscape: A Cultural History. Howell Press. pp. 38, 163. ISBN 978-1-57427-110-2. OCLC 44738900 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c Willard, Frances E.; Livermore, Mary A., eds. (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Buffalo, NY: Charles Wells Moulton. p. 783. OCLC 751955051 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ a b Bayliss, Mary Lynn (2017). The Dooleys of Richmond: An Irish Immigrant Family in the Old and New South. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-3999-5. OCLC 980838719. Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Ellen Wilson | Artist: Adele Williams, 1868 - 1952 | Sitter: Ellen Louise Axson Wilson". National Portrait Gallery. Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017.
- ^ Hummel, Ray O.; Smith, Katherine M. (1977). Portraits and Statuary of Virginians: Owned by the Virginia State Library, the Medical College of Virginia, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Other State Agencies: An Illustrated Catalog. Virginia State Library. p. 103. OCLC 3993490 – via Google Books.
- ^ Patton, John S.; Doswell, Sallie J.; Crenshaw, Lewis Dabney, eds. (1915). "After the Fire of 1895". Jefferson's University: Glimpses of the Past and Present of the University. Charlottesville, VA: The Michie Company. p. 39. OCLC 3461703 – via Google Books.