biographie de Charles Partridge ADAMS (1858-1942)

Birth place: Franklin, MA

Death place: Pasadena, CA

Addresses: Denver, CO; Los Angeles, CA/Laguna Beach, CA

Profession: Landscape painter, teacher

Studied: self-taught; Denver, briefly with Helen Chain

Exhibited: NAD, 1890, 1896-97; AIC, 1892,1897, 1899, 1901; Nat. Mining and Indst. Expo, Denver (gold); Pan-Am Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (prize).

Member: Denver AC, 1893 (charter member); Laguna Beach AA.

Work: State Univ., Boulder, CO; Kansas City (MO) Art Assoc.; San Diego; Women's Club, Denver; Denver Art Assoc.; Denver Art Mus.

Comments: Adams moved to Denver c.1876 and worked as an engraver. By the 1880s he had become a successful landscape painter, painting scenes of Yellowstone Park, the Tetons and the New Mexico desert. After a trip to Europe he settled in Southern California in 1916. In his studio in Laguna Beach he concentrated on marine subjects after 1921.

Sources: WW40; Hughes, Artists of California, 13; P&H Samuels, 3.