Wilbur G. Adam 1921 Portrait Oil Painting of Woman in Pink Dress

Item Details

Wilbur G. Adam (Ohio/Illinois; 1898 – 1973)
Untitled (portrait), 1921
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to lower right
Personal inscription from artist to lower left

A 1921 oil painting on canvas by listed artist Wilbur G. Adam (Ohio/Illinois; 1898 -1973). This portrait painting depicts a young seated woman, wearing a pink formal dress, and posed to the left against a tonal background. It is signed and dated to the lower right. An inscription from the artist, to the lower left, reads ‘To my friend Thelma War, 1921, Wilbur G. Adam’. This work is presented in a dark gold-tone gesso frame with cast foliate embellishments to each corner.

Wilbur G. Adam was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and began studying at the Art Academy of Cincinnati before he graduated from high school. There he was able to train under many well-known Cincinnati artists, including Herman Wessel, James Roy Hopkins, Lewis Henry Meakin and Frank Duveneck. Adam went on to have a long, distinguished career, dividing his time between Chicago and Cincinnati, becoming a successful illustrator and portraitist while continuing to paint and exhibit at prestigious institutions including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the St. Louis Art Museum and the Cincinnati Art Museum, and serving as the president of the Cincinnati Art Club from 1965 – 1967.

Condition

- canvas has lost tension and is buckled to lower left. Small area of paint loss to lower left edge. Small tear to canvas to lower edge. Accretion to painting surface.

Dimensions

- measures frame. Visible image measures 27.5" W x 34.5" H.

Item #

19CIN045-038