Marilla Adams

Adams was born in 1864 in Zorra, Canada West.

There she studied under Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith along with Cornelia Saleno and Eva Brook Donly.

[1] Adams taught for a time at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, before traveling to Europe.

She settled in Montréal, Quebec, where she taught weaving and wood carving to wounded soldiers.

[1] In January 1926, she reviewed the work of charitable organizations in the city, and spoke on behalf of the ones she felt did the most to "alleviate handicaps of the underprivileged".

Three attentive women in an artists studio, one painting on a canvas as the others observe
Adams (center) in Three Artists by Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith , c. 1883 , which depicts three of Bell-Smith's students at Alma College. [ 2 ]