{"id":257,"date":"2016-05-06T03:13:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T03:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/?page_id=257"},"modified":"2016-05-11T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:33:27","slug":"j-ottis-adams-a-bit-of-the-whitewater","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/j-ottis-adams-a-bit-of-the-whitewater\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Ottis Adams, A Bit of the Whitewater"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Adams<\/a>John Ottis Adams<\/strong>,\u00a0A Bit of the Whitewater<\/em>, c. 1913, oil on canvas, donor: Edward W. Adams<\/p>\n

Painted late in his life,\u00a0<\/span>A Bit of the Whitewater<\/span><\/i>\u00a0is indicative of much of the landscape work that Adams created.\u00a0Fi<\/span>rst shown in 1913, the painting depicts a rushing river near his studio at the Hermitage in Brookeville, Indiana.\u00a0Adams\u00a0sought to capture the wilds of Indiana, the American West.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1915, Adams was honored by being asked to show this painting at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. In a life filled with accomplishments and recognition, this honor is one of the highest.\u00a0<\/span>A Bit of the Whitewater\u00a0<\/span><\/i>was the only painting of his asked to be shown at the exposition,<\/span><\/p>\n

This landscape\u00a0traveled back across the country to Indiana, where it would stay until Adam\u2019s death twelve years later in 1927. Adams\u00a0was honored that fall with a memorial exhibition at the John Herron Art Institute, which Adam\u2019s helped found in 1902.\u00a0<\/span>A Bit of the Whitewater\u00a0<\/span><\/i>was one of over 140 of his paintings that were shown, celebrating the life of one of Indiana’s greatest<\/span>\u00a0artists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Click the links below for more information about this\u00a0painting\u00a0and artist:<\/p>\n