Big Boy
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 37 x 27 inches
Richmond Art Museum Purchase from Elizabeth M. Comstock Memorial Fund, 1963
Wayman Adams (1883 - 1959)
Wayman Adams had his early training from his father, Nelson Perry Adams, a stock farmer in Muncie, Indiana, who took up painting in later life. He studied at the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, with William Forsythe and J. Otis Adams; with William Merritt Chase in Italy, 1910; with Robert Henri in Spain, 1912. He maintained a portrait studio in New York and in Indianapolis, and taught at the Grand Central School of Art, New York.
Adams exhibited internationally and painted portraits of many well-known people, among them three Indiana Governors, many actors and artists. He had shows at the Richmond Art Museum in 1925 and 1927, winning the Mary T. R. Foulke prize in 1915 and 1926 for paintings entered in the annual exhibition.
