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Kenneth Adams, Taos Woman, 1926, Conte Crayon, 14" x 12"

Biography Kenneth Adams

Kenneth Miller Adams was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1897. Studying with G.M. Stone in Topeka, Adams went on to study at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York before traveling 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.

Kenneth Adams, Benerisa, c. 1930, lithograph, 24" x 20"

In 1924 Adams moved to Taos to be with Dasburg and Walter Ufer. He would be the last and youngest member of the Taos Society of Artists, and perhaps the most dedicated modernist of them all. He was also one of the most emotionally connected to the Taos Indians, teaching 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. 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. He died in 1966.

Museum Collections

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art

Jonson Gallery of University of New Mexico

Joslyn Art Museum

Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum

Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia

Museum of New Mexico

Museum of the Southwest

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

Phoenix Art Museum

Roswell Museum and Art Center

Sangre de Cristo Arts Center

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Spencer Museum of Art

Stark Museum of Art

The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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Kenneth Adams, Untitled, Oil on Paper, 16" x 12"