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Herbert Samuel Adams

Herbert Samuel Adams (1858 - 1945) was active/lived in New York, New Hampshire.  Herbert Adams is known for Marble portrait female sculpture, medallic art.

A leading sculptor of the Renaissance Revival movement, Herbert Adams was born in Concord, Vermont at a time when American sculptors were turning away from antiquities to modern subjects and methods.

He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts* in Paris during the period when American artists were turning away from copying antiquities to more creative, lively surface modeling.  He earned honorable mentions in the Paris Salon* of 1888 and 1889 as well as many other medals at American expositions and exhibitions.  He was a member of the National Academy of Design*, which he also served as President.

He did numerous frontal busts of attractive women in vaguely historical costumes, suggesting Renaissance* styles, and often his model was his beautiful wife, Adeline Pond Adams whom he married in 1899.  The couple were married for 56 years.  She became a well-known art writer and became an authority o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2082 characters.]  Artist bio

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