biographie de Bertrand R. ADAMS (1907-?)

Birth place: Webster City, IA

Addresses: Ames, IA

Profession: Illustrator, craftsperson, painter

Studied: Federal Schools; Univ. Iowa, B.A.; with Charles Hawthorne, Sidney Dickinson, Grant Wood, 1914, Christian Petersen.

Exhibited: Iowa State Fair, 1934 (prize), 1935, 1936; All Iowa Art Show, 1937; NYC WPA Exhib., Parsons Sch. Design, 1977.

Member: AFA; Cooperative Artists of Iowa.

Work: murals, USPO, Dubuque and Siloam Springs, Iowa; murals, Iowa State College Library; Equitable Life Bldg., Des Moines, IA

Comments: Designed for Columbia Pictures Corp. Illus., Manual of Cranial Technique. Author: Design Correlation, Architectural Record, F 1937.

Sources: WW59; WW47; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 11; New York City WPA Art, 2 (w/repros.)"