American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945

Thornberry's Pasture
Thornberry's Pasture
Artist Adams, John Ottis
     nationality American
     birth-death 1851-1927
Creation date 1904
Materials oil on canvas
Dimensions 35 1/2 x 23 in. (framed)
Credit line Gift of Robert Brady Adams, John Alban Adams, and Edward W. Adams
Accession number 55.27
Wall Label

In this landscape Adams pursues the impressionist goal of capturing the light and atmosphere of a specific moment.

Thornberry's Pasture is in Brooklyn, Indiana a few miles southwest of Indianapolis.

Adams was the first painting instructor at the John Herron Art Institute.


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