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Josephine Truslow Adams

Josephine Truslow Adams (1897 - 1969) was active/lived in New York, Pennsylvania.  Josephine Adams is known for American Scene painting, political activist.

Josephine Truslow Adams was a direct descendant of presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Born in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, she came from a successful, cultured, and cosmopolitan family, with several of Adams’ siblings achieving fame as scholars (Louise Adams Holland) and poets (Leonie Fuller Adams (Troy)).

Adams graduated from the Pratt Institute and from 1934 to 1941, she served as an art instructor at Swarthmore College. During her time at Swarthmore, Adams joined a number of communist party front organizations drawn largely by her support of the loyalist cause in the Spanish Civil War. In January, 1939, Adams received nationwide press coverage for her efforts to lift the US arms embargo against Republican Spain. In these efforts, she was joined by other artists like Rockwell Kent, who was photographed with Adams in several publications.

Adams was an active participant in the Committee to Defend the People’s Rights, which provided legal defense for sever   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4776 characters.]  Artist bio

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