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![]() | A Gray Summer Day 1911 | ![]() This painting depicts a gray summer sky behind a green field with a creek and forest. The creek begins in the lower left corner and snakes around into the background giving depth. The trees and brush are concentrated on the right. A house or other structure is visible behind the brush. The artist signed 'J. Ottis Adams' on the bottom mid-right hand... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | A Winding Road, Brookville 1904 | ![]() This painting depicts a winding dirt road beginning in the bottom left of the composition and winding around into the distance behind a large tree. A valley is off to the bottom right. The sky is filled with large white clouds and consumes the top 2/3 or the canvas. The artist signed his name in the lower right corner "J. Ottis Adams 1904." The... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | A Winter Day, Brookville 1910-1912 | ![]() This painting depicts a Brookville winter scene. A shallow slope begins in the center left of the composition and slants down to the right. On it sit three brown bushes, the largest sits in the center of the canvas. The field in the foreground and behind is covered with a thin layer of show and other shrubs. A hazy row of hills fill the background... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Along Indian River (Florida Cow, New Smyrna) 1923-1926 | ![]() This painting depicts a field and stream scene. The stream begins in the bottom left corner and winds back to the center middle ground. A large tree sits on the bank to the right with more vegetation behind. The field and bank are covered with tall green grass. A tree line runs across the background and divides the field from the cloud filled sky.... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Big Bayou, St. Petersburg, Florida 1918-1920 | ![]() This landscape painting depicts a view of the calm ocean with a large sky above. A green shoreline breaks up the horizon as it extends in to the center from the far right. A white structure sits on the very edge next to the water . The sky fills the top 2/3 of the composition and one large horizontal cloud runs the span. | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Binding Books ca. 1904 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]() Interior scene depicting a figure of a young woman seated at a table on which there is a book binding press. Light from a window on the right falls across her hands and face as she works on binding a book. In the background ther are paintings and drawings hanging on the wall and stacked against the wall. | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Blue Hills, Brookville 1910 | ![]() This landscape painting depicts a green valley with blue hills faded in the distance. The valley can be see through a frame of colorful vegetation and trees sloping in from both the right and the left of the foreground. A small town sits in the valley in the very center of the background. The surface of this impressionistic painting is very textured. | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Glimmer Glass 1895 Ball State Museum of Art Muncie, IN | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | In Poppyland (Poppy Field) 1901 Ball State Museum of Art Muncie, IN | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Madge 1900-1905 | ![]() This painting depicts a young woman with auburn hair pulled up in a bun, wearing a high neck white blouse with black collar. She is wearing a black jacket with puffed sleeves and a high-waisted black skirt. The jacket has a white stitched trim detail. The woman is facing the right, with the left of her face and body in shadow. The background is a... | Unrated | Anonymous |
- John Ottis Adams