Adams, Kenneth M. - lithograph, good condition,

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Start price: $375

Estimated price: $750 - $1,000

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This orginal lithograph by Kenneth Adams titled "Card Players, " edition 73/100 lower left, signed lower right, image size 17.5 x 23 and is unframed.Kenneth Miller Adams (1897-1966) was born in Topeka, KS and died in Albuquerque, NM. Adams was a painter, specializing in realist, figure & landscapes, a lithographer, muralist and teacher. At age 16 he worked for G.M. Stone in Topeka before entering the Art Institute of Chicago in 1916. He studied at the Art Students League of New York beginning in 1919 where he was a pupil of K.H. Miller, George Bridgman, Maurice Stern, & Eugene Speicher.

Adams spent summers with Andrew Dasburg in Woodstock, NY, then from 1921-23 Adams studied in France & Italy painting landscapes that he exhibited in Topeka. In 1924, Adams moved to Taos, NM and became the youngest & last member of the Taos Society of Artists in 1926. He taught at the Taos Field School of Art from 1929 until he moved to Albuquerque in 1937 where he was artist-in-residence at the University of New Mexico until his retirement in 1963.

In 1937 he painted "Rural Free Delivery" in the Goodland Post Office. He also painted murals in Washington, DC, the University of New Mexico, & at Kansas State College, Manhattan. Primarily known for his scenes of Spanish culture and for his portraits. Winning bids are packaged and shipped by UPS. Shipping estimates are available upon request.

Condition: good

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