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 Margaret Graham Boroughs Adams  (1882 - 1965)
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Lived/Active: Indiana/New York      Known for: floral still-life painter, lithographer, illustrator
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A painter working primarily in watercolor who showed early art talent, Margaret Boroughs Adams made the expression of her talents secondary to taking care of her husband, portrait painter Wayman Adams (1883-1959).  Of her it was written that she was his "most vocal cheerleader". (128)  However, in 1935, when their son, Snig, was about eleven years old, she began a series of watercolor floral still lifes, inspired by the family three-month visit to Taxco in southern Mexico, and received attention for their excellence.  However, she was so insecure about asserting her skills that she signed her first exhibition entries as 'Wayman's wife'.

Born in Austin, Texas, she had parents who encouraged her talents and found good art teachers for her in Austin and New York City.  In Austin, she opened the Barn Studio, an art school.  One of her students was Miriam A. Ferguson, the first female governor of Texas.  In 1908, she was a founder of the Austin Art League and also founded the Austin Heritage Society.

In 1910, Margaret went to Florence, Italy for the summer to study with William Merritt Chase, and on that trip met her future husband, Wayman Adams, who was also a student of Chase and was from Indiana.  They married eight years later, unable to afford marriage before that time.  They lived both in Indiana and New York City and had several acres of land near Elizabethtown, New York in the Adirondacks.  There they established the Old Mill Art School for summer classes, and Margaret ran a tea room whose building she oversaw from wood from old barns.  She decorated it with furnishings she had bought in Mexico.  George and Evelynne Mess gave lithography classes at the school, and both Margaret and Wayman Adams did lithography under their tutelage.

When their son was enrolled in Culver Military Academy, the couple traveled together including a four-month trip to South America  where Wayman Adams completed a portrait of the president of Uruguay and did a mural in Montevideo.

In 1950, the Adams moved back to her birthplace of Austin.  He died nine years later, and she remained there until her death in 1965.  In later years, she described herself as content to be a wife and mother and an artist of "lesser fame". (131) 

However, the extensive exhibition record of Margaret Adams belies any assertion that her artwork was less than recognized.  In New York City, she exhibited at Grand Central Art Galleries (1936-1937), New York Decorators Club (1937), Allied Artists of America (1945), National Association of Women Artists (1938), Harlow Keppel Galleries (1942-43) and the American Watercolor Society (1945).    Other venues were the University of Texas, 1936; Southern States Art League, 1938; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1945; Hoosier Salon, 1945-47, 1950, 1955, and 1959; and the Texas Fine Arts Association, 1947.


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Judith Vale Newton and Carol Ann Weiss, Skirting the Issue, pp. 128-131, 251

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