A Different Slant of Light

Her Work

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Adelaide began creating art while still a young teenager. By 1892 she was showing pastels, watercolors, and oils at the state fair and at the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco.

She began photography about 1900, and had images published in Camera Work by 1902. From then until about 1909 her work appeared in many magazines.

In 1906 she was admitted to the Photo-Session. In December of 1906 and into early 1907, she had one image hung in the Photo-Secession members exhibit in Alfred Steiglitz' gallery at 291 in New York.

Early on she decided to make literary illustration her specialty. Three books were published: two translations of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and one edition of Sonnets from the Portuguese.

Newspaper articles and a few surviving examples show that she also worked on illustrating quite a few other poems. Most of these were never published.

In 1914 and 1915 she was working a new project—illustrations of nursery rhymes, using her children as models. She stopped working on this when her husband was killed in WWI. She never resumed photographic work.

In the 1920s she created miniatures, watercolors of landscapes and flowers, and she illustrated another poem in watercolors painted, more like one paints with oils, on a hard imitation-ivory surface.