ADAMS, Herbert, American sculptor: b. West Concord, Vt., 28 Jan. 1856. After early studies at the Institute of Technology, Wor cester, Mass., and at the Normal Art School, Boston, he proceeded to Paris, and became a pupil of Antonin Mercier, 1885 to 1890. From 1890-98 he was instructor in the art school of the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. In 1899 he was elected to the National Academy of Design and in 1906 vice-president. Among his distinctive works are tinted marbles and polychrome busts, notably that of "St. Agnes,) of
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in marble, and the Vanderbilt bronze doors are in St. Bartholomew's Church, New York. His other works of importance are the bronze Jon athan Edwards Memorial at Northampton, Kass., bronze statues of Richard Smith, in Philadelphia, and William
Channing, in Boston, and William Cullen Bryant, in New York. Adams' works were exhibited at the Chicago Fair of 1893 and at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, in 1904, in both of which he received high awards. While mod ern and original, Adams, of all .Americans, ap proaches closest to the Early Renaissance in his refined realism and in his great technical skill in marble cutting. Consult Taft, Lorado, 'History of American Sculpture (New York 1904).