Adams, John Ottis

BORN: 8 July 1851, Amity, Johnson, Indiana
DIED: 28 January 1927, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana

ACTIVE:
Estabrooks' American Ferrotypes, 3A Tottenham Court Road, cor. Oxford Street, London, England, Oct 1872–Fall 1874
Portrait Studio, Seymour, Jackson, Indiana, Fall 1874–1875
Portrait Studio, Martinsville, Morgan, Indiana, 1875–1876
Gamble & Adams [photography / art studio], 50 East Main Street, Muncie, Delaware, Indiana, 1876–1879
Student, Royal Academy, Munich, Germany, 1880–1887
Adams & Forsyth [artists], Muncie Art School, Muncie, Delaware, Indiana, 1889
Artist, "The Johnson" Studio Rooms 321, 323, 325, Muncie, Delaware, Indiana, 1897–1899
Landscape Artist, Brookville, Franklin, Indiana, 1900–1915
Instructor, John Herron Art Institute, 1904–1909
Artist, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, 1916–1927

John Ottis Adams

IN0036A – Unknown Man, CDV, George R. Gamble & John Ottis Adams, 50 E. Main St., Muncie, IN, c1876–1879

IN0036B – Photographer Back Stamp, Gamble & Adams,
50 E. Main St., Muncie, IN, c1876–1879

J. Ottis Adams was born at Amity, Ind., July 8, 1851. He attended the elementary schools of Franklin and Shelbyville, high school at Martinsville and Wabash college for two years. Wabash later made recognition of his art attainments by awarding him the honorary master of arts. In 1872 he went to England to study art and remained for two years as a student in the South Kensington art school, during which time he also made copies of famous paintings in the national gallery. Upon his return to Indiana, he lived for a while in Seymour and Martinsville and in 1876 opened a studio in Muncie, painting portraits, among other work, until 1880, when he left for the second period of foreign art study, this time going to Munich, Germany. Upon his return seven years later he reopened his studio in Muncie and began to teach, in addition to painting portraits and landscapes.

—The Indianapolis Star, 2 Oct 1927

The Times (Muncie, IN), 28 Jan 1927, p. 21

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