Sculptor, Writer. She will be best remembered for her writings on American fine artists and art history, most notably seven texts including, "John Quincy Adams Ward: An Appreciation," and two collections of poetry. She was born one of five children as Adeline Valentine Pond to George Frederick Pond (1830-1906), and his wife Mary J. Devine Pond (1831-), in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 24, 1859. She was educated locally and then attended and took art studies at the prestigious Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1880. Besides, "John Quincy Adams Ward: An Appreciation," and two collections of poetry, her many other works include the six other texts, "The Spirit Of American Sculpture," "Daniel Chester French, Sculptor," "Childe Hassam," "Sylvia," "An Exhibition Of American Sculpture," and "Our Medals And Our Medals." During her impressive art career she also publically recommended or supported the likes of Anna Hyatt Huntington, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Bessie Porter Vonnoh, Janet Scudder, Laura Gardin Fraser, and Evelyn Beatrice Longman, among many others. She also publically supported or recommended war memorials to be created by professional sculptors rather than be mass-produced in factories. She met the sculptor Herbert Adams (1858-1945), while traveling in Paris, France, in 1887. The couple married in 1889, and they had two children together. In 1893, she sat for her husband who created a marble bust of her that was exhibited at the 1893 Chicago World Fair in Chicago, Illinois. She was also the subject of many other notable works by her husband. Her husband passed away in New York, New York, on May 21, 1945, at the age of 87. Her two children had also predeceased her. She passed away from natural causes in Brooklyn, New York, on July 1, 1948, at the age of 88. Following her death, her funeral service was held through Walter B. Cooke Inc. Funeral Directors in Brooklyn, New York, and she was cremated at the Fresh Pond Crematory and Columbarium in Middle Village, New York, and her ashes were buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. For her dedication to art, she was awarded a Special Medal of Honor by the National Sculpture Society on December 14, 1930.