Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
82-1/4 x 54-1/4 in. (canvas) 86-1/2 x 59 x 2-1/2 in. (framed)
Mark Description
Signed, lower left: Wayman Adams
Accession Number
Credit Line
Gift to the Art Association through popular subscription
Copyright
Collection
American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
Artist; purchased by a group of local patrons for the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1926.
Gallery Labels
This ambitious portrait presents the members of the Hoosier group, (from left to right) T. C. Steele, Otto Stark, J. Ottis Adams and William Forsyth. Richard Gruelle had died seven years earlier.
The artists are posed as if they were choosing paintings for an art exhibition.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Indianapolis Museum of Art
November 7, 2002 - January 4, 2004
Landesmuseum
February 24, 1991 - May 19, 1991
Wallraf-Richartz Museum & Fondation Corboud
November 14, 1990 - January 27, 1991
The Best Years: The Indiana Painting of the Hoosier Group 1880-1915
Indiana State Museum & Historic Sites
October 11, 1985 - March 16, 1986
Exhibition at L.S. Ayres & Compnay
L.S. Ayres & Co.
September 10, 1971 - September 20, 1971
Luxury in Living
Murat Shrine Center (Murat Temple)
April 10, 1970 - April 12, 1970
John Herron Art Institute and Museum
March 18, 1962 - April 15, 1962
24th International Exhibition
Carnegie Institute Museum of Art
1925 - 1925
John Herron Art Institute and Museum
March 5, 1922 - April 22, 1922
All Hoosier Art Show
Ball State University Museum of Art
October 9, 1968 - Date Unknown
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