Clifford Isaac Addams

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BIOGRAPHY Clifford Isaac Addams was born on 25 May 1876 in Woodbury, New Jersey, the son of Wellington Isaac Addams and Sarah Neff.

Clifford Addams was trained as an apprentice to an architect. He won a travelling scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1899 which enabled him to travel to Paris to study painting. There he enrolled in Whistler's newly established Académie Carmen, which was run by Whistler's long-term model Carmen Rossi. It was there that Clifford Addams met and, on 27 June 1900 in London, married Inez Eleanor Bate. Together they became apprenticed to Whistler, pledging the 'Master' faithfully to serve, his secrets keep and his lawful commands 'obey'. Inez was appointed Massière of the Académie until its closure, on Whistler's instructions in 1901. The Addams' followed Whistler to London when he returned in 1902, for they were by now his legal apprentices, and they visited him regularly until his death the following year.

All of Clifford Addams' etchings of London date from between the years 1902 and 1920. In 1920 Clifford Addams abandoned his wife and their four children, returning to America where he became a member of the Brooklyn, Chicago and Philadelphia Societies of Etchers - he had been elected president of the Philadelphia society by 1930. His accomplished etchings rank amongst some of the most impressive and atmospheric etched works by any of Whistler's followers.

Clifford Addams divorced Inez and on 16 March 1932 he married Lilian Curtis Goodhue Howard. Clifford Addams died on 7 November 1942 in New York.