{{short description|American art historian}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox writer | birth_name=Adeline Valentine Pond| image=William Howard Hart Portrait of Adeline Pond Adams.jpg | caption=Portrait by William Howard Hart|birth_date=October 24, 1859|birth_place=Boston, Massachusetts, US|death_date=July 1, 1948|death_place=New York City, US|spouse=Herbert Adams|subject=art history<br/>fine art|awards=Herbert Adams Memorial Medal<br/>Special Medal of Honor (National Sculpture Society)}}
'''Adeline Valentine Pond Adams''' (1859–1948) was an American writer<ref name=":0">{{cite book|title=New Hampshire's Cornish Colony|author=Fern K. Meyers, James B. Atkinson|year=2005|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=0-7385-3753-5}}</ref> and the wife of Herbert Adams. The chief subjects of her writings were American fine artists and art history. She published at least seven texts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr98-18184 |title=Works by or about Adeline Pond Adams in libraries (WorldCat catalog) |accessdate=April 21, 2008 |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520033219/http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr98-18184 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On December 14, 1930, she was awarded a Special Medal of Honor by the National Sculpture Society. In 1947, she was the first recipient of the Society's Herbert Adams Memorial Medal.
== Biography == Adeline Valentine Pond was born in Boston. She began her art studies at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in 1880.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary00morg|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxforddictionary00morg/page/5 5]|quote=Adeline Valentine Pond Adams.|title=Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists|last=Morgan|first=Ann Lee|date=2008-01-01|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195373219|language=en}}</ref> thumb|right|Bust of ''Adeline Valentine Pond'' by Herbert Adams in 1889 She met Herbert Adams in Paris in 1887. She posed for a marble bust that was eventually exhibited at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&pg=PA27|title=The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art|last=Marter|first=Joan M.|date=2011-01-01|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195335798|language=en}}</ref> The couple married in 1889.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jr6vNLLYMgC&pg=PA360|title=American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born before 1865|last=N.Y.)|first=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York|last2=Tolles|first2=Thayer|last3=Dimmick|first3=Lauretta|last4=Hassler|first4=Donna J.|date=1999-01-01|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=9780870999147|language=en}}</ref> Adams advocated for female sculptors including Laura Gardin Fraser, Evelyn Beatrice Longman, Janet Scudder, Bessie Porter Vonnoh, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle and Anna Hyatt Huntington.<ref name=":1" /> She also advocated for war memorials to be created by professional sculptors rather than mass-produced in factories.<ref name=":1" />
Adams was a member of the Cornish (NH) Equal Suffrage League.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20160121/LOCALVOICES06/160129811|title=Looking Back with Aurore Eaton: The Cornish Equal Suffrage League takes action - New Hampshire|newspaper=UnionLeader.com|access-date=2017-01-18|archive-date=February 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202084937/http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20160121/LOCALVOICES06/160129811|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Works== Adams's published texts include:<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr98-18184/|title = Adams, Adeline 1859-1948|website = OCLC WorldCat Identities|publisher = Online Computer Library Center Inc.|access-date = 2016-03-16|archive-date = April 9, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160409033546/http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr98-18184/|url-status = dead}}</ref> * [https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/72502 The spirit of American sculpture] * [https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/75047 The Amouretta landscape, and other stories] * "Daniel Chester French, sculptor" * "Childe Hassam" * "John Quincy Adams Ward; An Appreciation" * "Sylvia" * "An Exhibition of American Sculpture" * "Our medals and Our Medals"
In addition to art criticism, Adams also wrote poetry, including two collections of poetry about her deceased daughters.<ref name=":0" />
==See also== {{commons category}} *Clara Whitehill Hunt *Michael Ableman
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