Winter landscape ca. 1903
Winter landscape. A snowy meadow crossed by a small ice-free stream (right foreground to left background). The end of the meadow is formed by a sparse row of spruce trees with low bushes. In the background snowy, wooded mountain slopes.
JQAW# L_1903_010
Oil on cardboard on wood 51 x 68 cm
Signature: J. Q. Ɑdams Ski-Heil (redrawn by foreign hand)
Private collection Austria.
One of the few surviving pure landscape paintings by Adams. Previously undocumented. Undated, but based on the redrawn (forged?) signature, dated before 1905 (approx. 1903). The title Ski-Heil reflects the private interests of the athletic artist, an ambitious skier and mountain hiker (first ascent of the Posthorn on Lake Wolfgang with touring skis). Probably painted at the Semmering near Vienna or in the Wolfgangsee region, where Adams regularly visited his parents-in-law's Bürglgut estate in Strobl and, from 1919, also owned his own wooden house in St. Gilgen.
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Unknown.
Auction Dorotheum Vienna 27.4.2005 Lot 14 (as attributed to John Quincy Adams).
Unknown.
Auction Dorotheum Linz 3.5.2022 Lot 176 (as John Quincy Adams).
Private collection Austria.