Primavera

1890-1892

Herbert Adams

Sculptor, American, 1858 - 1945

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Collection of the artist [1858-1945], New York; by inheritance to his wife, Adeline Valentine Pond Adams [1859-1948], Brooklyn, and Plainfield, New Hampshire; purchased 1946 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1892

  • Fourteenth Annual Exhibition, Society of American Artists, New York, 1892, no. 1.

  • Fourth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Art Club of Philadelphia, 1892, no. 87.

1893

  • Fine Arts Exhibition, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, Group 139, no. 1.

1921

  • Winter Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1921, no. 205.

1923

  • Exhibition of American Sculpture, National Sculpture Society, New York, 1923, unnumbered checklist.

1926

  • Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Contributed by Artist Members of the Galleries, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1926.

1975

  • Academy: The Academic Tradition in American Art, National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, 6 June - 1 September 1975, no. 111.

1983

  • The Quest for Unity: American Art Between World's Fairs, 1876-1893, Detroit Institute of Arts, 24 August - 30 October 1983, no. 72.

1993

  • Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair, National Museum of American Art (now Smithsonain American Art Museum), Washington, 1993, no. 114, repro.

Bibliography

1892

  • "Work by Sculptors at the Society." New York Times (12 May 1892): 4.

  • "At the Art Club Some of the Pictures...at the Fourth Annual Exhibition of Oils." Philadelphia Inquirer (20 November 1892): 9.

1893

  • "Art Works Chosen. Work of the Selecting Juries of New York." Chicago Daily Tribune (January 1893): sec. 2, 9.

  • Coffin, William A. "The Columbian Exposition. I. Fine Arts: French and American Sculpture." The Nation (1893): 81.

  • "The Sculpture at the Big Fair." New York Herald (September 1893): 30.

  • "Brillian Work of American Sculpture." Chicago Daily Tribune (September 1893): 34.

  • Larned, Walter Cransted. Art Clippings from the pen of Walter Cransted Larned and Other Critics of the Fair: Architecture and Sculpture. Chicago, 1893: 23.

1921

  • Lloyd, David. "National Academy Fall Show Open." New York Evening Post (November 1921): 5.

  • Cortissoz, Royal. "The Academy. Landscape Paintings, Sculpture and Prints." New York Tribune (December 1921): sec. 4, 7.

1930

  • Taft, Lorado. The History of America Sculpture. New York, 1930: 543, repro. 544.

1971

  • Holler, Katherine Derry. "Herbert Adams, American Sculptor." M.A. thesis, University of Delaware, Newark, 1971: 8, 103-104.

1972

  • Rheims, Maurice. Sculpture au XIX siècle. Paris, 1972: 407, 416.

1976

  • Broun, Elizabeth. "American Painting and Sculpture in the Fine Arts Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1976: 50-52, 245.

1978

  • Fink, Louis Marie. "The Innovation of Tradition in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art." _American Art Journal_10, no. 2 (November 1978): 65.

1983

  • Lantz, Michael. "Two Cities: Part II. The Chicago Contribution." Sculpture Review, 32, no. 1 (Spring 1983): 10.

1984

  • Craven, Wayne. Sculpture in America. Newark and New York, 1984: 435, repro. 459.

1994

  • Türr, Karina. Farbe und Naturalismus in der Skulptur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts: Sculpturae Vitam Insufflat Pictura. Mainz, 1994: 68, 216, 286.

2000

  • Hyson, Marilyn Gage. Profile of Herbert Adams, 1858-1945, Sculptor. Princeton, 2000: 21, 101, 104.

  • Tolles, Thayer, ed. American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1. A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1865. New York, 2000: 156.

2003

  • Tolles, Thayer. "'In a Class by Themselves': Polychrome Portraits by Herbert Adams." In Thayer Tolles, ed. Perspectives on American Sculpture before 1925. New York and New Haven, 2003: 64, 65, 68, 76.

Inscriptions

on front: PRIMAVERA; on back: HERBERT ADAMS

Wikidata ID

Q63864010


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