509. Ada Walter Shulz (American, 1870-1928), “Summer Day”, c.1906; oil/canvas, 20" x 26”, signed, “Ada”, original frame. This painting is included in an inventory compiled of Ada Shulz’s works. Shulz began her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1889, under John Vanderpoel. She traveled with Vanderpoel’s class in the summer of 1892 to Delavan, Wisconsin, where she met her future husband, Adolph Shulz. In 1894, the two were married, and remained in Delavan for the next twenty years, although they began summering in Brown County, Indiana in the 1910s. They moved there permanently in 1917. Adolph specialized in landscape painting, and Ada chose the mothers and children of Brown County as her subjects. She favored painting outdoors, in bright sunlight, and her lush, expressive portraits of children reveal a tremendous sensitivity to the warmth and light of the Indiana summer. In Lyn Letsinger Miller’s book, The Artists of Brown County, she gives an account describing Ada’s return to painting after the birth of her son, Walter: “It was not until 1906 that I adjusted sufficiently to paint with any regularity,” Ada recalled. She continued to paint children, but now she worked not in the studio but in more natural outdoor settings. The idea of doing portraits outside had come to her as she watched two little neighbor girls in the Shulzes’ arbor ‘with sunlight playing over them’.” This is a rare and exceptional example of this artist’s work, which was given to the consignor’s grandparents from Ada Shulz in Delavan, Wisconsin. 80,000-100,000

Lot 509

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