Wayman Adams

Wayman Elbridge Adams studied in Indianapolis at the Herron School of Art. His father was an amateur artist and a farmer who spurred Wayman’s art interest. Adams later travelled to Italy and Spain, where he met Margaret Burroughs (1882-1965), also an artist, and married her. The couple had one son and later lived in Austin, Texas. He focused on oil paints (figures, genre, murals and portraits) and became one of the leading portrait painters of prominent persons and persons of high influence in the United States. He also painted street scenes from Spain and San Francisco. In 1945, Syracuse University awarded him an honorary doctorate.