Adele Williams Explained
Adele Williams (February 24, 1868 – 1952) was an American artist who was one of the earliest Impressionist painters in Virginia.[1]
Biography
Adele 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]
Notes and References
- Book: Kelly, James C. . The Virginia Landscape: A Cultural History . Rasmussen . William Meade Stith . Howell Press . 2000 . 978-1-57427-110-2 . 38, 163 . en . 44738900 . Google Books.
- Book: A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life . . 1893 . Willard . Frances E. . Buffalo, NY . 783 . en . 751955051 . Livermore . Mary A. . Internet Archive.
- Book: Bayliss, Mary Lynn . The Dooleys of Richmond: An Irish Immigrant Family in the Old and New South . . 2017 . 978-0-8139-3999-5 . en . 980838719 . 28 February 2024 . https://archive.today/20240229035735/https://books.google.com/books?id=9e6dDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT217%23v=onepage&q&f=false . 29 February 2024 . live . Google Books.
- Web site: Ellen Wilson Artist: Adele Williams, 1868 - 1952 Sitter: Ellen Louise Axson Wilson . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20171107024919/http://npg.si.edu/portraits/search?edan_fq%5B1%5D=date%3A%221900s%22&edan_fq%5B2%5D=object_type%3A%22Paintings%22&edan_fq%5B3%5D=topic%3A%22Women%22&edan_q=Adele+Williams&edan_local=1&op=Search . 7 November 2017 . . Smithsonian Institution.
- Book: Hummel, Ray O. . 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 . Smith . Katherine M. . . 1977 . 103 . en . 3993490 . Google Books.
- Book: Jefferson's University: Glimpses of the Past and Present of the University . . 1915 . Patton . John S. . Charlottesville, VA . 39 . en . After the Fire of 1895 . 3461703 . Doswell . Sallie J. . Crenshaw . Lewis Dabney . Google Books.
