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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Kenneth Miller Adams studied with G.M. Stone in Topeka, at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, and then travelled to Italy and France for further instruction. He summered in Woodstock, NY with Andrew Dasburg, painting the landscape and developing his skills as a modernist. In 1924 Adams moved to Taos and became the last and youngest member of the Taos Society of Artists. He was also one of the most emotionally taught at the University of New Mexico, Taos. In 1938 He moved to Albuquerque during the winters, where he worked on nudes, portraits and still life, returning to Taos in the summer to focus on Indian subjects, with whom he had a close connection. He taught at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, as well, eventually earning a tenured professorship and a membership to the National Academy of Design. Photographic portrait of the Taos painter Kenneth Adams and his wife Hilda Adams in their home. Kenneth Adams is seated with a cowboy hat in his lap and Hilda Adams is standing behind him with her hand on his shoulder. Hilda wears a floral scarf or shawl around her shoulders and hat with a feather in the band. An Indian blanket is on the wall behind them.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_893_0459 ark:/21198/zz002h2rfj
Subject
Artists--American--New Mexico--Taos Artist colonies--New Mexico--Taos Adams, Hilda, b. 1894 or 1895 Adams, Kenneth Miller, 1897-1966
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