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American artist (1868–1952)
Adele Williams
Born(1868-02-24)February 24, 1868
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Died1952 (aged 83–84)
Alma materCooper Union
Art Students League of New York
Académie Julian
Known forPainting
MovementImpressionism

Adele Williams (February 24, 1868 – 1952) was an American artist who was one of the earliest Impressionist painters in Virginia.

Biography

Adele Williams was born in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of John H. Williams. 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. She also studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, where she won the Prix Concours medal.

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 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. 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. Her portrait of judge John W. Riely hangs in the Virginia Supreme Court, and her portrait of Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury is owned by the University of Virginia.

References

  1. 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. "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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
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