Peter Seitz Adams (born August 27, 1950, Los Angeles) is an American artist. His body of work focuses on landscapes and seascapes created

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in oil or pastel as well as enigmatic figure and still-life paintings. He is noted for his colorful, high-key palette and broad brushwork. Adams has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums, including throughout California, the Western United States, and on the East Coast in Philadelphia, Vermont, and New York. Adams is the longest serving President of the

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(f. 1909) and has served on its board of directors in

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, California from 1993 to 2018. He is also a writer on subjects relating to historic artists for the California Art Club Newsletter, as well as for a number of the organization's exhibition catalogs.

Family and personal background

Peter Adams' mother, Mary Seitz Adams (1917–2004), was a socially active homemaker and his father, James H. Adams, also known as Peter Adams, Sr., was a businessman by vocation, and an actor by

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. Peter Adams, Sr. appeared in Hollywood epic films, such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Jailhouse Rock'' and the television series ''

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''. His maternal grandfather was the playwright and Hollywood movie director George B. Seitz (1888–1944). Adams has two older sisters, Mary Adams O’Connell, who is a businesswoman and Aileen Adams Cowan, who is a former Secretary of State for Consumer Affairs for the State of California and an Assistant Attorney General in the

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. Adams grew up in

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and attended Harvard Boys School (now

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). He is married to Elaine Shelby (Shelbi) Adams, a former stockbroker who has managed the California Art Club in addition to Adams' career since 1993. The Adams' live in a home that has been described as an eclectic mixture of Chinese furniture and Antiques, some significant works by his teacher Theodore Lukits as well as a broad selection of some of his own works chosen by his wife. The Adams have constructed elaborate waterfalls and pools, as well as walls and walkways made of river stones around their Pasadena property. Peter Adams' studio features a high-pitched roof that allows him to work on large paintings and glassed shelves housing a collection of art books. He is an avid outdoorsman who hikes in the

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with his

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and makes painting trips to the Sierra Nevada (U.S.). He is a public speaker and raconteur.

Early art studies

Adams was initially drawn to traditional, representational art. As a young man, he collected adventure books from the "Golden Age" of American illustration. He credits these romantic tales, illustrated by artists like

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and

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, with not only inspiring his art but interesting him in the world beyond the shores of America. Adams wanted to learn how to paint like the turn-of-the-century painters did, but he couldn't keep up with the curriculum at the Instituto de Bellas Artes in

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(1969), Otis Art Institute and Art Center School (1970). In 1970 he was introduced to

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(1897–1992), a well-known painter of portraits, still lifes and landscapes who had been teaching in Los Angeles since 1924.

Studies with Theodore Lukits

Peter Adams entered the atelier of Lukits in 1970. Adams has described entering the Lukits studio, which was lined with plaster casts of Roman and Greek sculpture, student’s drawings and Chinese antiques "like walking into another century” because the Lukits Atelier resembled those of the 19th-century Parisian painters' he admired. Adams was to study with Lukits for seven years and eventually he became his apprentice, but like all of Lukits' new students, he began by "drawing from the antique," doing charcoal or graphite portraits of marbles and plaster casts of ancient Roman and Greek statuary. These studies taught Adams to understand the tonal gradations of light and shadow. Advancement in a traditional atelier is based on mastery, so Adams moved from working from plaster casts to simple still life set-ups only after his instructor was satisfied with his work. As a culmination of his graphite work Adams did a series of fanciful still life drawings of Asian antiques that set the direction for the still life works of his professional career. Eventually, he began to work in color, painting still life set-ups under the colored lights that Lukits used to simulate conditions an artist might find in the outdoors. He subsequently attended Lukits' anatomy and life drawing classes. Adams also began painting “

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”, directly from the landscape. He painted with Arny Karl (1940–2000) a fellow Lukits student who had already been painting out of doors for a number of years. Using the pastel medium, the two went on plein air trips to the local foothills in the

, beaches, and trips to St. Malo, near Oceanside, where the Adams family owned a beach house. Karl and Adams also made extended trips to the American and Canadian National Parks, traveling as far north as the

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. By the mid-1970s, they were joined by another fellow Lukits student, Tim Solliday (b. 1952). Together, the three artists traveled and painted ''en plein air'' using the pastel medium, as their teacher Theodore Lukits had done in the 1920s and 1930s.

Professional career

Adams began painting professionally around 1980. He was first represented by the Greg Juarez Gallery in Beverly Hills. Run by the collector, philanthropist, and 9th-generation Californian Gregg Juarez, the Juarez Gallery represented Adams for a number of years. Next, he moved to the Adamson-Duvannes Gallery in West Hollywood, California. Jerome Adamson was an art collector who had purchased this historic gallery. He represented Adams for a number of years and mounted Adams' large exhibitions of works from Asia and Afghanistan. In 1992, Adams began to exhibit his work with the Morseburg Galleries in West Hollywood. There he participated in a long series of group exhibitions which included the older painter Richard Rackus (b. 1922), as well as two of his friends from the Lukits Atelier, Arny Karl (1940–2000) and Tim Solliday (b. 1952). These exhibitions emphasized plein-air landscape painting. Adams participated in a number of pastel shows along with Solliday, Karl, Gil Dellinger, Rich Hilker and Clark Mitchell. In 2003 his wife Elaine Adams opened American Legacy Fine Arts, a private art gallery developed on the first floor of Peter Adams’ studio and began promoting her husband’s work as well as other artists in Los Angeles.

Artistic influences

Inspired by a broad spectrum of artists in the classical art tradition, however, Adams cites

, his teacher and mentor, as providing him with the direct link to the art ateliers of Paris and to the 19th century academicians he admires, such as

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(1825–1905) and

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(1824–1904). Like most Plein-Air painters he also cites the Spanish Impressionist Joaquin Sorolla (1863–1923) and the Swedish painter of figures in outdoor settings

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(1860–1920) as having an impact on his work. However, in contrast to many painters steeped in the Plein-Air tradition, the course of Adams' life and career has been influenced by the Orientalists, the French, British and American painters who ventured to the Middle East in the 19th century, painting the "exotic" people who populated lands that were unfamiliar to them. He includes

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(1804–1876) Sir David Roberts (1796–1864),

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(1847-19280 and

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(1849–1903) as painters who made him curious to explore remote lands and get to known distant peoples. Adams designs and constructs his paintings differently from most painters and he has been influenced in completely different ways by the English painter, illustrator, printmaker and muralist Sir

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(1857–1956) and the Art Nouveau painter and muralist

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(1860–1939). From Mucha, he learned about swirling, moving, compositions and curvilinear line. From Brangwyn he learned about the juxtaposition of interesting shapes.

Assessment and oeuvre

While Adams considers himself a traditionalist and a representational painter, he is considered to be an innovative colorist and because of his interest in unusual effects of light, natural wonders and underground geological formations. Early in his career, his work consisted of

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pastels and oils of the Eucalyptus trees, bridges and foothills around Pasadena. In addition, he created a series of beach scenes with figures centered on St. Malo Beach near Oceanside. The works he created on his extended trips to Asia were primarily figurative in the quick-drying tempera media to sketch, later, completing a series of larger works for his exhibitions back in America. Art historian and former Chief Curator of the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Michael Tomor, described Adams' pastel work in an essay for the exhibition Contemporary Romanticism: Landscapes in Pastel as being "Inspired by the brilliant colors, atmospheric perspective, and scenic grandeur of the great 19th century Romanticists, Peter Adams, a student of Theodore Lukits in the 1970s, conveys the magical shimmer of light in ephemeral sunsets and the tranquility of the sea." As his teacher Lukits did in the 1920s, Adams painted in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) during the summer and winter when atmospheric conditions were more intense. By the mid-1990s, while its origins remained out of doors, his work was becoming more stylized, showing the unmistakable influence of Art Nouveau. As he reached middle age, Adams began to do large works of unusual natural formations, geysers and pools in

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or stalactites in

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in New Mexico. In recent years he had returned to the human figure as a subject, often combining fantasy and reality in his works, as he has done in a series of recent works centered on the story of Wagner's ''Ring of the Nibelung'' and the Los Angeles Ring Festival mounted by the

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Revival of the California Art Club

By the early 1990s, Adams and his friends saw the need for an organization that could help to bring order to the reemerging traditional art movement in California. Adams accepted the Presidency of the California Art and he has remained at its helm to the present. In order to reorganize the

, Adams began to recruit most of the active professional landscape and figurative painters and sculptors that he knew. The core group of artists that became members of the reorganized California Art Club was primarily students of Theodore Lukits or the Russian landscape and figurative painter Sergei Bongart (1918–1985).

Organization of California Art Club special exhibitions

Under the leadership of Peter Adams and his wife, Elaine Adams, the

began organizing a series of thematic exhibitions at both art and natural history museums. The Adams' saw that there was a natural relationship between landscape art and ecological awareness and natural history. In 1996, the California Art Club organized the ''California Wetlands'' Exhibition at the Natural History Museum in historic Exposition Park in Los Angeles. In May through August 1998, the California Art Club mounted ''Treasures of the Sierra Nevada'' at the

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, featuring works by historic California artists including

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(1883–1947),

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and Theodore Lukits as well as contemporary painters. The Carnegie Museum in

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hosted a large exhibition of works by painters from the California Art Club in 1994 titled ''The California Art Club: 85 Years of Art'' where Adams' work was featured prominently. In 1997 Peter and Elaine Adams and the California Art Club organized a traveling exhibition which contrasted the work of American Impressionists and Classical Realist painters from the East Coast and the Midwest

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with the California Impressionists. Titled ''East Coast Ideals, West Coast Concepts'', the exhibition traveled from the Carnegie Museum in Oxnard to the Springville Museum of Art in Springville, Utah to the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. Among the historic artists represented were

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and R.H.Ives Gammell (1893–1981), representing the Boston School and Theodore Lukits and

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(1877–1941) representing the California Impressionists. In 1999, the California Art began a long relationship with the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at

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in Malibu with the exhibition titled ''On Location in Malibu''. The exhibition, organized and curated by the Weisman's Michael Zakian, ran from May 22 to August 7, featuring the work of Adams along with dozens of CAC painters.Exhibition listed below, see also Michael Zakian, ''On Location in Malibu'', California Art Club and Frederic R. Weisman Museum of Art exhibition catalog, 1999.

Exhibitions and collections

Adams has exhibited in numerous museums, including the

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, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Portsmouth Museum, Courthouse Gallery,

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, Museum of the Southwest,

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, Hillsdale College,

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, Colorado History Museum, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art,

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, the

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and

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. He has held solo exhibitions at the Pacific Asia Museum and Carnegie Art Museum, as well as numerous commercial venues. Among the public collections in which Adams' work is represented are the

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, Forbes Magazine Collection,

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, Pasadena Museum of California,

and Our Savior Parish & USC Caruso Catholic Center. In 2007 he received a Gold Medal in the California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibition, and in 2004 he was nominated for Visual Artist of the Year by the International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England. In addition to his affiliation with the California Art Club, Adams has served on the boards of the American Society of Classical Realism, American Society of Portrait Artists, and served several years on the board of directors of the

and the

. Adams is a Signature Member of the California Art Club, Oil Painters of America, Pastel Society of America, and the Plein Air Painters of America.

References

External links

California Art Club website

Pacific Asia Museum website

Adams' representative

* ttp://www.theodorelukits.org/ Website devoted to the life and art of Theodore Lukits, Adams' teacher
Southern Alleghenies Museum of art, Collection of plein-air pastels including Lukits, Adams, Karl

Springville Museum of Art, site of CAC exhibitions

Haggin Museum, Stockton, site of CAC special exhibitions

Orientalist painting website

Orientalist painting website

Website dedicated to Sir Frank Brangwyn
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