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Clifford Addams
Clifford Isaac Addams (May 25, 1876 – November 7, 1942) was an American painter and etcher, and a protégé of James McNeill Whistler.
Addams was born in Woodbury, New Jersey, the son of Quaker wool merchant Wellington Isaac Addams and Sarah Neff Addams. He had an older brother Robert and a younger sister Florence.
Addams studied architecture at the Drexel Institute, then attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He won an 1899 traveling scholarship from PAFA, which enabled him to study in Europe. The prior year, Whistler opened an art school in Paris—the Académie Carmen, operated by the artist's former model, Carmen Rossi. Addams enrolled, and became a favored pupil of the celebrated artist.
Addams met fellow student Inez Eleanor Bate, and they married in London on June 27, 1900. They helped to run the school and care for Whistler, who was in failing health. After the school closed its doors in 1901, the couple settled in London. They had four children: Dianne (b. 1901) – Whistler was her godfather, twins James and Anthony (b. 1904), and Martin (b. ). Addams painted portraits and figure works, and made etchings of London and other European cities. He served in the Royal Navy from 1914 to 1919, during World War I. In 1920, he separated from his wife and family, citing her "extreme cruelty" in divorce proceedings. He returned to the United States, while she raised their children in Hendon, London. He settled in the Greenwich Village section of Lower Manhattan, where he died in 1942.
John Sloan commented on one of the works Addams exhibited at PAFA's 1907 annual exhibition: "Clifford Addams is a theme of interest. His nude in the show is a fine thing. If Whistler had done it, it would be a great Whistler." After meeting him, Sloan wrote: "Clifford Addams seems to be not at all the weird eccentric we have heard him described during the last six years. Either he has changed or Dame Rumor is a liar, the last most likely."
Addams exhibited sporadically at PAFA from 1907 and 1937. His Odalisque, exhibited in 1913, is fully clothed and coolly appraises the viewer. His At Play, a scene of a young woman in a kimono playing with a pet bird, was a traditionalist subject, but Addams painted it with modernist brushwork. It was exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1922, at PAFA in 1923, and at the National Academy of Design in 1924, where it was awarded the Thomas B. Clark Prize (best figure work by an American artist painted in the United States). PAFA awarded him its 1925 Temple Gold Medal for Washington Square, New York.
The Clark Galleries in Manhattan hosted a one-man show of Addams's works in April 1910. The Arlington Galleries in Manhattan hosted a one-man show of his works in December 1923.
Addams exhibited five oil portraits (including a self-portrait), two war sketches, and a watercolor at the 1926 Sesqui-Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
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Clifford Addams
Clifford Isaac Addams (May 25, 1876 – November 7, 1942) was an American painter and etcher, and a protégé of James McNeill Whistler.
Addams was born in Woodbury, New Jersey, the son of Quaker wool merchant Wellington Isaac Addams and Sarah Neff Addams. He had an older brother Robert and a younger sister Florence.
Addams studied architecture at the Drexel Institute, then attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He won an 1899 traveling scholarship from PAFA, which enabled him to study in Europe. The prior year, Whistler opened an art school in Paris—the Académie Carmen, operated by the artist's former model, Carmen Rossi. Addams enrolled, and became a favored pupil of the celebrated artist.
Addams met fellow student Inez Eleanor Bate, and they married in London on June 27, 1900. They helped to run the school and care for Whistler, who was in failing health. After the school closed its doors in 1901, the couple settled in London. They had four children: Dianne (b. 1901) – Whistler was her godfather, twins James and Anthony (b. 1904), and Martin (b. ). Addams painted portraits and figure works, and made etchings of London and other European cities. He served in the Royal Navy from 1914 to 1919, during World War I. In 1920, he separated from his wife and family, citing her "extreme cruelty" in divorce proceedings. He returned to the United States, while she raised their children in Hendon, London. He settled in the Greenwich Village section of Lower Manhattan, where he died in 1942.
John Sloan commented on one of the works Addams exhibited at PAFA's 1907 annual exhibition: "Clifford Addams is a theme of interest. His nude in the show is a fine thing. If Whistler had done it, it would be a great Whistler." After meeting him, Sloan wrote: "Clifford Addams seems to be not at all the weird eccentric we have heard him described during the last six years. Either he has changed or Dame Rumor is a liar, the last most likely."
Addams exhibited sporadically at PAFA from 1907 and 1937. His Odalisque, exhibited in 1913, is fully clothed and coolly appraises the viewer. His At Play, a scene of a young woman in a kimono playing with a pet bird, was a traditionalist subject, but Addams painted it with modernist brushwork. It was exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1922, at PAFA in 1923, and at the National Academy of Design in 1924, where it was awarded the Thomas B. Clark Prize (best figure work by an American artist painted in the United States). PAFA awarded him its 1925 Temple Gold Medal for Washington Square, New York.
The Clark Galleries in Manhattan hosted a one-man show of Addams's works in April 1910. The Arlington Galleries in Manhattan hosted a one-man show of his works in December 1923.
Addams exhibited five oil portraits (including a self-portrait), two war sketches, and a watercolor at the 1926 Sesqui-Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.