biografia di Louise Ruth ADAIR (1913-?)

Birth place: Redding, IA

Addresses: Indianola, IA

Profession: Painter, teacher

Studied: Cumming School of Art; Univ. Iowa, B.A. & graduate work with Charles A. Cumming, Alice McKee Cumming, Edna Patzig, Ruth Wilkinson, Catherine Macartney & Grant Wood.

Exhibited: Iowa State Fair, 1931 (3 first prizes); Iowa Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1932; Iowa Art Salon, 1935; Mem. Union, Iowa City, 1937-38 (prize).

Comments: Teacher of art, junior & senior h.s.; supervisor of art, Marion, IA, 1938-39.

Sources: Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 11.