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Wayman Adams

Contemporary American painter. Born in Muncie, Ind., he studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and later with Chase and Henri. He painted street scenes in Spain and then in San Francisco and New Orleans, but is best known for the portrait painting to which he later turned. His portraits are bravura impressions in the tradition of Sargent and Chase.

  • When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it’s bad art. Marc Chagall
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