Jean Adams

Artist Details

• First Name Jean
• Middle Name Crawford
• Maiden Name Adams
• Surname Adams
• Spouse’s Full Name n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date August 4, 1884
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Death Date November 27, 1972
• Death Place Oak Park, Illinois
• Residence(s) 1916:  3828 Wilcox Ave., Chicago, Illinois
  
  255 S. Central Park, Chicago, Illinois
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Studio Location(s) 1940: Auditorium Tower, E. Congress St., Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Painter-Acrylic
• Training Paris, France (André Lhote)
  Provincetown School of Art (Charles Hawthorne)
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (George Bellows, Frank Phoenix, John Vaderpoel)
   
  
• Relevant Travel New Mexico
  
  Midwest United States
  
  California
  
  New York
  
  Europe
• Exhibitions History 1915-1945: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (13 times)
  
  1925-1935, 1940: International Water Color Exhibitions, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (5 times)
  
  1926: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1928, 1939: Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  
  1928-1945: Annual Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (6 times). [1938:  Wheat Fields
  
  1929: Chester Johnson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
  
  1920s-1940s: The Ten, Marshall Field Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1930: City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
  
  1930: Four-person exhibit, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1930: Exhibition of Paintings Selected from the Annual Exhibition of Paintings by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1931: Festival of Religious Art: Religious Art by Artists of Chicago and Environs, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1931: Jean Crawford Adams: Paintings, Dallas  Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
  
  1932: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  1932-1933: First biennial exhibition of contemporary American painting. Whitney Museum, New York, New York. [cat. no. 133 Plowing]
  
  1933: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Winter with Flowers
  
  1933-1934: Paintings and Sculptures from 16 Cities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
  
  1933, 1934: A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  January 31-March 10, 1935: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Roofs
  
  1938: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
  
  1939: Half Century of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1941: Works by Chicago Artists Loaned by Chicago Collectors, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1945: Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Jean Crawford Adams and Laura Van Pappelendam, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1957: Chicago Artists No-Jury Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  [Taxco, Mexico and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago]
  
  1959, 1961, 1966: Artist Members Exhibition, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1993-1994: New Woman in Chicago, 1910-45: Paintings from Illinois Collections, Rockford College and Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
  
  Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
  
  Toledo Museum of Art
  
  University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
• Collections Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
  
  Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  M. Christine Schwartz Collection, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
  
  Union League Club, Chicago, Illinois
• Publications Corbett, Jim and John Dempsey. Big Picture: A New View of Painting in Chicago. Chicago, IL: Chicago History Museum, 2007. Falk, Peter. Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975. Madison, CT : Sound View Press, 1999. Greenhouse, Wendy. Chicago Painting, 1895-1945: The Bridges Collection. Springfield: Illinois State Museum, 1999. Illinois State Museum. The "New Woman" in Chicago, 1910-1945: Paintings from Illinois Collections. Rockford, IL.: Rockford College, 1933. Jacobson, J. Z. Art of Today, Chicago, 1933. Chicago: L.M. Stein, 1932. Jewett, Eleanor. "City's Moderns Hold Show That Runs the Scales." Chicago Tribune. 13 Dec 1938, 18. Kennedy, Elizabeth ed. Chicago Modern, 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New.  Chicago: Terra Museum of American Art, 2004. “The “New Woman” in Chicago, 1910-1945: Paintings from Illinois Collections” 1994 Rockford College Art Gallery, Illinois Art Gallery and Illinois State Museum-Lockport (exhibition catalog). "Obituary, Adams." Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 1972, B16. Petteys, Chris. Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985. Rich, Daniel Catton and Art Institute of Chicago. Catalogue of a Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, from the American Collections. The Art Institute of Chicago, June 1 to November 1, 1933. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1933. Sparks, Esther. "A Biographical Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors in Illinois, 1808-1945." dissertation Northwestern University, 1971. Yochim, Louise Dunn. Role and Impact: The Chicago Society of Artists Chicago: Chicago Artists Society, 1979.
• Memberships Chicago Arts Club
  
  Chicago Society of Artists
• Awards 1925, 1926: Englewood Woman's Club Prize, Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1928: Honorable mention, Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1933: Brower Prize, Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Website(s) "Jean Crawford Adams." Artnet.com.