biografía de Kenneth Miller ADAMS (1897-1966)

Lugar de nacimiento: Topeka, KS

Lugar de defunción: Albuquerque, NM

Direcciones: Taos, NM; Albuquerque, NM, 1938

Profesión: Painter, lithographer, educator, muralist

Estudios: With G. M. Stone, Topeka; AIC, 1916; ASL, 1919; with Kenneth Hayes Miller, George Bridgman, Maurice Sterne, Speicher; summers with Andrew Dasburg in Woodstock; and in France and Italy, 1921-23.

Exposiciones: San Francisco AA, 1920, 1932; NAD, 1928-1946; PAFA; Corcoran Gal., 1930-39; Exh. Am. Lith., Philadelphia, 1932 (prize); CGA (prize, 1935); SFMA, 1942, 1946; AIC; CI; Dallas Mus. FA; VMFA; Kansas City AI (prize, 1938); Denver Art Mus. (prizes,1928, 1930, 1944); New Mexico State Fair, 1944 (prize), 1945 (prize); Mus. New Mexico, Santa Fe (prize, 1950); S.Indp.A.; Harwood Fnd.; Gilcrease Fnd.; Cedar City and Logan, Utah; Salons of Am.; New Mexico State Mus.; Univ. New Mexico Fine Arts Center, 1964 (retrospective). Other awards: prizes, IBM, 1940; Philadelphia Print Club, 1940.

Asociaciones: ANA, 1938; NA, 1961; Prairie Printmakers; Phi Kappa Phi; Audubon Artists; Taos Soc. Artists, 1927; Am. A. Cong.; Woodstock Artists Assoc.

Obra: WMAA; CI; LOC; NYPL; Joslyn Mus., Omaha, NE; Univ. New Mexico; Colorado Springs FA Center; Kansas State College; Denver AM; LACMA; Honolulu Acad. Art; Dallas Mus. FA; USPOs at Goodland, KS and Deming, NM.

Comentarios: Taos contemporary realist figure and landscape painter who blended conservative and modernist styles. Adams was the youngest and last member of the Taos Soc. of Artists, encouraged by Dasburg to move to New Mexico in 1924. By 1950 his work in Albuquerque was mainly of nudes, portraits and still life; in the summertime in Taos he chose flowers, the Indians and the rural Spanish Americans. Illus., Autobiography of Earth," by John H. Bradley. Position: t., Univ. New Mexico, Taos, 1929; t., Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque (listed as Prof., Emeritus, in 1963).

Fuentes: WW66; WW47; Peggy and Harold Samuels, 3-4; Marlor, Salons of Am.; Eldredge, et al., Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945, 190 (Eldredge gives a deathdate of 1981); add'l info. courtesy Woodstock Artists Assoc."