HERBERT

See also:

• ADAMS
• ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
• ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
• ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
• ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
• HERBERT ADAMS (i858— )
• ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
• ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
• ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
• ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
• ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
• ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)

ADAMS (i858— )  , American sculptor, was .born at West Concord, Vermont, on the 28th of January 1858 . He was educated at the Worcester (Massachusetts) Institute of Technology, and at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, and in 1885—1890 he was a pupil of Antonin Mercie in Paris . In 189o—1898 he was an instructor in the art school of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York . In 1906 he was elected vice-president of the National Academy of Design, New York . He experimented successfully with some polychrome busts and tinted marbles, notably in the "Rabbi's Daughter" and a portrait of Miss Julia Marlowe, the actress ; and he is at his best in his portrait busts of women, the best example being the study, completed in 1887, of Miss A . V . Pond, whom he afterwards married . Among his other productions are a fountain for Fitch-burg, Massachusetts (1888) ; a number of works for the Congressional Library, Washington, including the bronze doors ("Writing ") begun by Olin Warner, and the statue of Professor Joseph Henry ; memorial tablets for the Boston State House ; a memorial to Jonathan Edwards, at Northampton, Mass.: statues of Richard Smith, the type-founder, in Philadelphia, and of William Ellery Channing, in Boston (1902) ; and the Vanderbilt memorial bronze doors for St Bartholomew's Church, New York .