Medium: Oil on Board
Size: 13 1/2" x 17 1/2"
Frame Size: 18" x 22"
Condition: Great, no visible damages
Style: Impressionist
Artist: Ada Walter Shulz (1870 - 1928)

Ada Walter Shulz was active/lived in Wisconsin, Indiana. Ada Shulz is known for paintings of mothers and children in landscape.

The Shulzes were devout Christian Scientists and committed to doing painting that would inspire and lighten people's spirits. Ada, especially, wanted her life and paintings to be testimonies to that which was uplifting and led people to rejoice in their lives. In 1901, the couple helped organize the Delavan Christian Science Society, which led to the building of a church.

In 1910, she and her husband began spending their summers painting in Brown County, Indiana, which was an area that later attracted many plein-air painters. Walter Shulz enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1913, and the next year he, age 19, and his parents exhibited their work at the Milwaukee Art Society.

From 1908 to 1917, the family spent time in the summer in Brown County, Indiana because Adolph Shulz had grown increasingly unhappy with the growing population around Delavan and the disappearance of open landscape for his paintings. He explored Brown County, focusing on its hill country of the Nashville region. In this location, with her son and husband painting out of doors, Ada Shulz was able to pursue her own painting, and she used some of the local children as models. She sometimes included barnyard animals in her paintings.

In 1915, her painting, Motherhood, was described in the Chicago Evening News as being among the best paintings in the 28th Annual Exhibition of the Chicago Art Institute. The next year, her painting The Picture Book won an award, and in 1917 Mother and Child won a purchase award.

These successes and the well-established career of Adolph led to enough professional security that the Shulzes bought land in Brown County in 1917 and moved there to oversee the building of their home. Their property, located on a ridge northeast of Nashville, had been owned by Gustave Baumann, printmaker, who was moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Shulzes' son Walter, without consulting with his parents, enlisted in the Army, and by May was shipped to France with the Sixteenth Infantry of the First Division. Meanwhile his parents had moved into their spacious new home, which they named Lizard's Rest, and which had a large studio for Ada and a garden studio for Adolph. Shortly after they settled, World War I was coming to an end, and they anticipated the return of their son who had survived the battlefields and was part of a volunteer occupation in Germany. However, he became ill from diptheria and died overseas on December 12, 1918.

The loss devastated the parents, who even blamed each other for his joining the Army and subsequent death. The couple grew apart but remained active in the local community. Ada worked hard in the local Christian Science Society, volunteered much time in The Brown County Public Library, and became a beloved part of the community. Adolph spent much time in his studio, where he had a place dedicated to the memory of his son. He also painted extensively in the countryside, joined the Masonic Lodge and took up teaching. In 1926, both of them, no longer a couple, helped form the Brown County Art Gallery Association

Meanwhile several years earlier, Adolph had fallen in love with one of his students, Alberta Rehm Miller from Indianapolis who had rented a cabin near Nashville. When the relationship began, she was a thirty-four year old divorcee with a four-year old daughter. In 1924, Adolph left Ada and moved into a cabin studio near Nashville with Alberta and her daughter, Emilie. On September 30, 1926, the Shulzes were divorced, and within a month Adolph married Alberta.

Two years later Ada Shulze died from cancer, although she had been highly productive after the separation. She had continued living at Lizard's Rest and even painted landscapes as well as her figure work. However, being a Christian Scientist, she did not pay attention to her increasingly ill health, and she died at age fifty-eight tended only by a practitioner.


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