Lorea Standish Adams was born in Maine on 1882 January 31. Her parents were Capt. John Quincy Adams (1845 – 1911) and Emma L. Gregory (1850 – 1909). She taught school in Rockland, Maine, circa 1903-1906, before attending Rhode Island School of Design from 1907 to 1911, receiving a diploma in Normal Art. She taught drawing and art in Burrillville and Cranston, Rhode Island public schools for more than 20 years. During this time she also attended RISD day and evening classes, 1912-13, 1916-17, 1922-23, and 1933-34.
Adams died 1963 November in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Lorea Standish Adams papers, Rhode Island School of Design Archives.
The Lorea Standish Adams papers contain art education materials made, drawn, or collected by Adams, 1900-1920. There are pamphlets and clippings used in classes that showcase different drawing and illustration examples for children and teenagers. The series also includes notes on teaching, classroom protocol, and classroom syllabuses created by Adams and syllabuses published for Rhode Island and Massachusetts schools.
The collection holds Adams' school records and grades from RISD classes. Included are Adams' notebooks from primary school and RISD. One notebook contains her complete notes for a Saturday public school teachers drawing class taught by Helen E. Cleaves, 1910-1911, with lectures highlighting Denman Ross's Color Theory. The collection holds correspondence with and publications by educational instruction companies and others including the Prang Educational School and the National Association of Audubon Societies.
The collection includes a list of her books donated to the Fleet Library at RISD in 1998.
Publications included in the series are:
The collection is arranged by material and topic of teaching.
Philip T. Fazioli donated the Lorea Standish Adams papers to the RISD Archives in 1998.