Unexpected Roots
Artists with Adams County Connections

You might be surprised to learn that some famous artists have local links, including “the handsomest man in the world,” a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, novelists, stars of the silver screen, and artists who studied with the Impressionists. Some were born here, had relatives here, lived, or died here.

Learn how Elsie Singmaster Lewars (at left), Marianne Moore, Charles Morris Young, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Wolfe, Oscar Shaw, and Francis X. Bushman
are tied to Adams County.