Wilbur G. Adam
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| Born | 23 July 1898 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Died | 23 March 1973 Loveland, Ohio |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Art Academy of Cincinnati |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Known for | Portraiture and landscapes |
| Awards |
1921, Chaloner competition, National Academy Museum and School of New York City 1925, Peabody award, Art Institute of Chicago |
1921, Chaloner competition, National Academy Museum and School of New York City
Wilbur G. Adam (23 July 1898 – 23 March 1973) was an American painter and illustrator who divided his career between Cincinnati and Chicago. He was known for his portraiture and landscapes of western United States. In the latter part of his career he focused on Biblical illustrations.
Adam was born in the Mount Auburn district of Cincinnati in 1898. He was one of five children of German immigrant and shoemaker Jacob Adam and his wife Eleanor.
He graduated from Cincinnati's Hughes High School in 1916 where he was named "Best Artist".
Adam began his art training at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1912 while a high school student and later while working part time at United States Printing and Lithograph Company in Norwood, Ohio. He studied under many famous Cincinnati artists such as Herman Wessel (1878–1969), James Roy Hopkins (1877–1969), Lewis Henry Meakin (1850–1917), Frank Duveneck (1848–1919) and Caroline Lord (1860–1927).
In 1917 he and a group of young artists from the Art Academy of Cincinnati including Bill Bollman, George Fetick, Carl Hasz, Arthur Helwig, John Holmer and Dick Sanders started a communal studio in downtown Cincinnati on the south side of Third Street, between Walnut and Main. They called it Russet Studio.
In September 1918, Adam travelled to Stearns, Kentucky with Art Academy of Cincinnati classmate Frank Harmon Myers for a sketching trip. Myers and Adam later exhibited their work together at Traxel Galleries in Cincinnati and Adam later exhibited his Kearns paintings in the eastern US, Chicago Art Institute and Cincinnati Art Museum.
He joined the Cincinnati Art Club in 1919.
In 1921 he won second prize in the Chaloner Paris Scholarship competition of the National Academy Museum and School of New York City. He was a guest artist in 1921 and again in 1929 at the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation at Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.
In 1923 he and fellow Art Academy of Cincinnati student, Arthur Helwig, travelled to the Estes Park, Colorado and the Rocky Mountain National Park where the pair focused on landscape painting for a summer. In the summer of 1924 he took a seven-week trip to California, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and Rocky Mountains.
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