Artwork Details
18 x 28 in. (canvas) 29-1/2 x 39-1/2 x 3-1/8 in. (framed)
Mark DescriptionSigned and dated in orange paint, lower right: J. Ottis Adams 94
Accession NumberGift of Robert Brady Adams, John Alban Adams, and Edward Wolfe Adams
CopyrightAmerican Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color PaletteWinifred Brady Adams (wife of the Artist); given by sons of the Artist, Robert Brady Adams, John Alban Adams, and Edward Wolfe Adams, to the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1955.
- The oppressively hot and heavy air on the horizon during the dog days of summer casts an orange haze on the setting sun, which is reflected in the pools of water below.
- In a response to his environment, Adams drew the flat lines and planes of his painting directly from the prairie landscape around him. This provided an overall flatness to the image, where even the trees become a horizontal stripe in his composition.
- Adams settled in Muncie after studying art in Munich, Germany. The grassy prairies of northern Indiana became his purview, as his fellow Indiana artists preferred the forests and hills to the south.He would later also turned his gaze southward and establish a studio in Brookville, Indiana.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Back Home Again: The Return of Adams, Forsyth and Steele
Indianapolis Museum of Art
October 17, 1998 - September 1, 1999
The Passage: Return of Indiana Painters From Germany, 1880-1905
Indianapolis Museum of Art
November 24, 1991 - February 2, 1992
The Passage: Return of Indiana Painters from Germany, 1880-1905
Wallraf-Richartz Museum & Fondation Corboud
November 14, 1990 - January 27, 1991
Long-term Loan to Indianapolis Public Schools
Booker T. Washington Elementary School #17
Date Unknown - May 26, 1970
The First Hundred Years of Indiana Painting
John Herron Art Institute and Museum
October 4, 1966 - November 13, 1966
John Ottis Adams: Memorial Exhibition of Paintings
John Herron Art Institute and Museum
October 2, 1927 - October 30, 1927
Long-term Loan to Indianapolis Public Schools
Indianapolis Public Schools
February 29, 1960 - Date Unknown
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