Mark Adams Art

Artist: Mark Adams (American, 1925-2006) Title: Pink Poppy Year: 1980 Medium: Color aquatint Paper: Wove Image size: 11.25 x 8.5 inches Sheet size: 18 x 13.5 inches Framed size: 20.25 x 15.75 inches Signature: Signed and dated (1980) in pencil lower right Edition: 50 This one 21/50 Condition: Very good Frame: Framed in dark wood frame with Plexiglas This beautiful aquatint is by the noted San Francisco Bay Area artist Mark Adams (1925-2006). The print is in excellent condition. It is framed, floating in a simple dark wood frame with Plexiglas. The frame is in good condition and goes very well with the print. About the artist: Mark Adams attended Syracuse University and left to study art in New York with Abstract Expressionist Hans Hoffman. He was also a tapestry and stained-glass designer. He designed the windows for Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco’s largest synagogue, as well as has textiles featured in the de Young Museum and San Francisco International Airport. Later in life, Adams transitioned to watercolors, employing everyday objects–such as a flag, a bowl of fruit, and ballet shoes–as his subjects and creating pristine and almost hyper-real images. Through Adams’s vivid, delicate, and translucent colors, these mundane items take on deeper meanings. The artist was married to Beth Van Hoesen, who has portrayed him in an interior scene surrounded by objects he might have also portrayed. Adams attended Syracuse University and left to study art in New York with Abstract Expressionist Hans Hoffman. He was also a tapestry and stained-glass designer. He designed the windows for Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco’s largest synagogue, as well as has textiles featured in the de Young Museum and San Francisco International Airport. Later in life, Adams transitioned to watercolors, employing everyday objects–such as a flag, a bowl of fruit, and ballet shoes–as his subjects and creating pristine and almost hyper-real images. Through Adams’s vivid, delicate, and translucent colors, these mundane items take on deeper meanings. The artist was married to Beth Van Hoesen, who has portrayed him in an interior scene surrounded by objects he might have also portrayed. 1983 Mark Adams: Prints and Watercolors, Hastings Gallery of Art, Hastings College of the Law, University of California, San Francisco, California Mark Adams: Recent Watercolors, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1981 Mark Adams: Recent Watercolors, Graham Galleries, New York, New York 1980 Mark Adams: Recent Watercolors, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1978 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1972 Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, California 1971 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California 1971 – 74 Fire; Water, stained-glass windows, Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, California 1970 Mark Adams: An Exhibition of Tapestries, Fountain Gallery, Portland, Oregon Mark Adams, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California 1968 Hansen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1967 Tapestries and Drawings, Santa Rosa County Public Library, Santa Rosa, California 1966 Hansen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1963 I Am the Light of the World, stained-glass windows, Woodside Village Church, Woodside, California 1964 Tapestries by Mark Adams, French & Company, New York, New York 1962 Tapestries, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California 1961 Contemporary Tapestries by Mark Adams, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California Contemporary Tapestries by Mark Adams, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon 1959 Tapestries by Mark Adams, San Jose State College, San Jose, California Tapestries: Mark Adams, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, California 1958 Modern Tapestries by Mark Adams, San Diego State College, San Diego, California 1957 Tapestries by Mark Adams, Stanford University, Stanford, California 1954 Gump's Gallery, San Francisco, California 1997 Structures: Buildings in American Art, 1900-1997, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California Second Annual Collaboration, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho 1996 The Robert Arneson Tribute Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California A Collaboration, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho 1995 Objects of Desire, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California XXV Years, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California Mark Adams, A Way with Color; Beth Van Hoesen, Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1994 Twenty-Six Artists: A Selection of Works from John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Friesen Gallery, Seattle, Washington Mark Adams: Watercolors, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1991 Mark Adams: Tapestries, Drawings, Prints, Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1989 Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1987 Mark Adams/Beth Van Hoesen, Pacific Presbyterian Professional Building, San Francisco, California Watercolors, Shasta College, Redding, California Master Exhibition Series, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA Flo Allen: a Model for a Generation, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco, California 1986 Tapestry-Contemporary Imagery/Ancient Tradition: United States, United Kingdom and Canada, Cheney Cowles Memorial Art Museum, Spokane, Washington Airport Cafe: An Exhibition About Food and Art, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California The Golden Land, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California Life Drawings - 1960's: Seven San Francisco Artists, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, California 1985 American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California American Realism, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California Two California Artists: Mark Adams/Beth Van Hoesen, University of Tennessee, The Small Press Phenomenon: Work from 18 Bay Area Fine Art Presses, Glastonbury Gallery, San Francisco, California 1984 Contemporary American Realists, Orr's Gallery, San Diego, California The Art of Connoisseurship and the Print, DeSaisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California California Drawings, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California Recent Acquisitions, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Painters at U.C. Davis: Part II, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, California 1983 Bon a Tirer, DeSaisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California Contemporary Drawings, Glastonbury Gallery, San Francisco, California California Contemporary: Recent Work of 23 Artists, Monterey Peninsula of Art, Monterey, California Figure Drawings: Five San Francisco Artists, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, California 1982 New American Graphics II, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Whitewater, traveling through 1983 by The Art Museum Association of America 1981 Drawings from the Figure, Art Gallery, California State University, Hayward, California 1980 Water Works, Art Gallery, University of North Dakota, North Dakota 1979 Tapestries: 15-20th Centuries, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California 1978 Contemporary Tapestries, Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California 1977 Works on Paper - 3 Artists, Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, California Invitational American Drawing, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, California Contemporary Tapestries, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California 1976 Five Centuries of Tapestry, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California 1975 Contemporary Tapestries, Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California Fiber and Clay, California State University, Hayward, California 1973 Mark Adams: Drawings, Paintings, Tapestries; Beth Van Hoesen: Intaglio Prints, Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, California 1970 West Coast '70: Painters & Sculptor, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California Tapestries by Mark Adams and Graphics by Beth Van Hoesen, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, California 16th Painting Annual 1969, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California 1966 Newman Guild Religious Art Invitational, E.B.Crocker Gallery, Sacramento, California The 5th Biennial National Religious Art Exhibition, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 400 Years of Tapestry, Norfolk Museum, Norfolk, Virginia California Design, Pasadena Museum, Pasadena, California 1964 84th Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California Bienale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland COLLECTOR; Object/Environment, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, New York Religious Art, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 1963 5 Bay Area Artists, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California Vistas, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 1962 California Design, Pasadena Museum, Pasadena, California Fourth Winter Invitational Exhibition, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California Fine Arts for Architecture, California Council, American Institute of Architects Convention, Monterey, California Paintings...

Born in Fort Plains, N.Y., Mark Adams (1925 - 2006) went on to attend Syracuse University, but left before graduation to study abstract art in New York with...