| John Wolcott Adams | |
| Birth Date: | 7 October 1874 |
| Birth Place: | Worcester, Massachusetts, US |
| Death Place: | New York, US |
| Occupation: | Illustrator |
| Education: | School of the Museum of Fine Arts Art Students League of New York |
John Wolcott Adams (1874–1925) was an American illustrator.[1]
Adams was born on 7 November 1874 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He married Frances Pendleton Sheldon (1903–1920). John Wolcott Adams was the son of John Francis and Ellen Wilson Adams and descendant of a New England family. This family had produced two United States presidents. Adams was interested in the theatre, and he was able to design at least one stage setting that was designed for a 1923 Walter Hampden production.
He died in New York on June 24, 1925, of appendicitis.[2]
John Wolcott Adams studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and in 1898 he went to New York where he attended the Art Students League of New York classes.
John Wolcott Adams was a member of the following groups:
John Wolcott Adams contributed to the following periodicals:
In 1916, Adams, with Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, produced a colorful redraft of the 1660 Castello Plan map of New York City.