Biography from AskART:
| A student at the Art Students League under John Twachtman and Frank Vincent DuMond, Katherine Adams is an artist about whom little is known except that she briefly painted at the Old Lyme Colony from 1912 to 1913. A humorous story was that Florence Griswold mistakenly assigned a man to the room Katherine was occupying and that she "coped readily" with the situation.
She traveled extensively including to the Orient, Paris, and later lived in Buenos Aires. In 1916, she married Benjamin Pettengill Adams. They first lived in New York City where exhibitions of her paintings were held at the Milch, Babcock, and Montross Galleries, and reviews said that the influence of Twachtman was apparent in her abstract landscapes. In 1935, she won the Marcia Tucker Prize at the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.
By the 1920s, she and her husband lived in Sneden's Landing, Palisades, New York, and their home, which she designed won a first prize in a "House Beautiful" magazine design contest as "the best small house east of the Mississippi."
Credit:
"Connecticut and American Impressionism", The William Benton Museum of Art, Introduction by Harold Spencer |
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Katherine Adams is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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