Charles Kendall Adams Portrait
- Title:
- Charles Kendall Adams Portrait
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Creator:
- Forbes, John Colin, 1846-1925
- Date:
- ca. 1906-1925
- Location:
- Uris Library, Arthur H. Dean Reading Room, Cornell University
- Country:
- Canada
- ID Number:
- artsdb_1700
- Accession Number:
- W84-10.1
UL_D-P3 - File Name:
- artsdb_1700.jpg
- Culture:
- Canadian
- Work Type:
- portraits
- Materials/Techniques:
- Oil
- Subject:
- College presidents
Adams, Charles Kendall, 1835-1902 - Image View Type:
- General
- Image View Description:
- Front View
- Description:
- Second president of Cornell University (1885-1892) and Professor of History. This painting is part of a commemorating portrait series of past Cornell University presidents in the Arthur H. Dean Reading Room of Uris Library.
More detailed information on Charles K. Adams may be found in:
Engst, Elaine.“Cornell’s Twelve Presidents: Charles Kendall Adams, President, 1885-1892,” Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections-Cornell University Library, accessed May 2, 2012,http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/presidents/view_item.php?sec=3&sub=9.
John Colin Forbes is an American painter from Toronto, Canada. Forbes studied at Upper Canada College, the South Kensington Museum, the Royal Academy, London, and École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He was a student of T. Mover Martin. Notable portrait subjects of Forbes include: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Kind Edward VII, Queen Alexandra of Great Britain, and Governor General of Canada Frederick Hamilton-Temple Blackwood. Forbes is considered one of Canada’s best portrait painters [MacDonald, Colin S. 1997. A dictionary of Canadian artists 1 A to F. Ottawa: Canadian Paperbacks Publ.]. - Source:
- Engst, Elaine.“Cornell’s Twelve Presidents: Charles Kendall Adams, President, 1885-1892,” Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections-Cornell University Library, accessed May 2, 2012,http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/presidents/view_item.php?sec=3&sub=9.
“John Colin Forbes,” Odon Wagner Gallery, accessed April 24, 2012, http://www.odonwagnergallery.com/traditional_artist/john-colin-forbes.
MacDonald, Colin S. 1997. A dictionary of Canadian artists 1 A to F. Ottawa: Canadian Paperbacks Publ. - Repository:
- Cornell University
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia Collection is protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are Cornell University Library and the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus. This collection was created by Cornell University Library in 2010, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Howard Howland. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus at cape@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.