Inscription
on front: PRIMAVERA; on back: HERBERT ADAMS
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.
Exhibition History
- 1892
- Fourteenth Annual Exhibition, Society of American Artists, New York, 1892, no. 1.
- 1892
- 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
- "At the Art Club Some of the Pictures...at the Fourth Annual Exhibition of Oils." Philadelphia Inquirer (20 November 1892): 9.
- 1892
- "Work by Sculptors at the Society." New York Times (12 May 1892): 4.
- 1893
- "Art Works Chosen. Work of the Selecting Juries of New York." Chicago Daily Tribune (January 1893): sec. 2, 9.
- 1893
- "Brillian Work of American Sculpture." Chicago Daily Tribune (September 1893): 34.
- 1893
- Coffin, William A. "The Columbian Exposition. I. Fine Arts: French and American Sculpture." The Nation (1893): 81.
- 1893
- Larned, Walter Cransted. Art Clippings from the pen of Walter Cransted Larned and Other Critics of the Fair: Architecture and Sculpture. Chicago, 1893: 23.
- 1893
- "The Sculpture at the Big Fair." New York Herald (September 1893): 30.
- 1921
- Cortissoz, Royal. "The Academy. Landscape Paintings, Sculpture and Prints." New York Tribune (December 1921): sec. 4, 7.
- 1921
- Lloyd, David. "National Academy Fall Show Open." New York Evening Post (November 1921): 5.
- 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 Journal10, 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.
- 2000
- 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.
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