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Mark Adams

Mark Adams (1925 - 2006) was active/lived in California.  Mark Adams is known for Still life, figure, town-landscape.

The following is written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:

Mark Adams was born in Fort Plain, New York. on October 27, 1925.  He studied at Syracuse University from 1943 until 1945,  and at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York from 1945 to 1947.  His training with Hofmann came at a time when abstract art was at its most innovative and offered a compelling impetus to young American artists.  For a while he, too, pursued it.  In 1955 he studied with Jean Lurcat in France and in 1955 at the Ecole Nationale d'Art Decoratif in Aubusson, France.   

Adams was a watercolor painter and a tapestry artist.  He became involved with watercolor around 1975.  He was working on many architectural commissions at the time, both stained glass and tapestry.  He realized that despite his close supervision of their making, these works eventually acquired a certain physic   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2069 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Mark Adams

   Publications  Book References:  17
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17 Book References for Mark Adams
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1997 The Dayton Art Institute American Art From the Dicke Collection 264 Yes
1994 LeClair, Charles The Art of Watercolor (Revised Edition) 144 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1988 Berggruen, John John Berggruen Gallery Works on Paper
(Exhibition catalog)
97 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 John Berggruen Gallery Exhibition Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)
116 Yes
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1983 Monterey Peninsula Museum California Contemporary Recent Work of Twenty Three Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
63 No
1980 John Berggruen Gallery Recent Watercolors
(Exhibition catalog)
24 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1970 California Palace Legion/Honor Exhibition of Tapestries, Paintin
(Exhibition catalog)
128 Yes
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