2010
Contemporary American artist Peter Adams is esteemed for his beautiful Impressionist paintings. He uses oil paints to create vivid landscapes and figurative works that saturate the canvas with color. Adams is known for combining the Western artistic tradition with Eastern influences picked up from his extensive travels.
Adams was born and raised in California. He studied at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California; the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles; the Instituto de Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; and the Lukits Academy of Fine Arts in Los Angeles.
Four of Adams’s seven years at the Luktis Academy were spent as an apprentice to Theodore Lukits, a renowned Impressionist painter. He was also introduced to Chinese porcelains and sculptures, which sparked an interest in Asian art that spurred him to travel. In 1981, he traveled and painted unescorted through the People’s Republic of China, becoming the first American artist to do so. He was also the only American artist to travel with the mujahideen rebels of Afghanistan in 1987.
Adams became the president of the California Art Club in 1993, a role he has served in ever since. Established in 1909, the organization only had 80 members at the time. Under his leadership, the membership has grown to around 3,000.
In 2007, he earned the John J. Geraghty Award for advancing traditional fine art as well as the gold medal for the best painting from his fellow members at the California Art Club. In 2009, Fine Art Connoisseur presented Adams with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Adams is represented by American Legacy Fine Arts in Pasadena. His works are in the collections of the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, California; the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California; the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California; and Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Peter Adams’s paintings.
Ventura River Channel; Santa Ana Road, Ojai Valley
By Ray Roberts
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed " Ray Roberts" on lower right UNFRAMED: 24" x 30" FRAMED: 30.75" x 36.625" x 1.5" Artist Statem...
Linen, Oil, Panel
Arroyo Vista; Trabuco Creek, Orange County
By Michael Obermeyer
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Obermeyer" on lower right FRAMED:18" x 21.25" x 1.875" UNFRAMED: 11" x 14" Artist Statement "This beautiful open space in South Orange County...
Linen, Oil, Panel
Golden Cove Breakers; Rancho Palos Verdes
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist. Signed "Peter Adams" on lower right. Artist Statement “At the time of big surf in the late afternoon, it is wonderful t...
Oil Pastel
Brilliant Reflections; Rocky Point, Carmel, California
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Peter Adams" on lower right Artist Statement "While on a recent painting trip along the 101 Highway to Carmel I stopped twice to paint at one of my favorite spots, Rocky...
Oil, Panel
Around the Bend; Laguna Canyon
By Michael Obermeyer
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by American Legacy Fine Arts directly from the artist. Signed "Obermeyer" on lower right Artist Statement "This is a view that is very familiar to me. I see this as I drive home from my studio in the late afternoons and evenings, the fading light on the walls of Laguna Canyon...
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Pools of Hahamongna; Arroyo Seco
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist. UNFRAMED: 30" x 40" FRAMED: 39" x 48.5" x 3" Artist Statement “For this large painting I did a number of preparatory ...
Oil, Panel
Bolinas Lagoon
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Willard Dixon is celebrated for contemporary landscapes that offer viewers a place of quiet reflection. Known for his luminous depictions of the American West, he captures space, lig...
Oil, Canvas
Elkhorn Slough - California Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Elkhorn Slough - California Landscape in Oil on Canvas Gorgeous oil painting landscape of Elkhorn Slough, Elkhorn, California by B. Skinner (American, 20th Century). Two cranes are ...
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Coastal Slough, California Landscape
By Mildred Vejtasa Fenner
Located in Soquel, CA
Peaceful landscape depicting the calm waters of a coastal slough with partly cloudy blue sky by Mildred Vejtasa Fenner (American, 1911-2005). Signed "M. Fenner" lower right. Presented in a rustic painted period wood frame with linen liner. Image, 22"H x 28"W. Mildred Vejtasa Fenner was born in 1911, in Adam, N.D. She was the eldest of six children. When she was 5, the family moved to Circle, N.D. Following high school in Circle, she attended Eastern Montana State Normal School in Billings, and became an elementary school teacher. In 1937, she married Wayne Fenner, a mining engineer. They had three sons. She taught at Cardwell, MT until the family moved to California in 1952. They lived in Watsonville, Calif., and she taught at Salsipuedes Elementary School and Moss Landing...
Canvas, Oil
"Morning Calm" Northern California California Lake W/Mountains by Tonya Batorski
Located in Soquel, CA
"Morning Calm" Northern California California Lake W/Mountains by Tonya Batorski Bucolic scene by Hayward and Lake Tahoe artist Tonya Batorski (American, 20th C.). Attended Chabot C...
Canvas, Oil
Northern California Duck Lake, Realist Landscape
By Luke Stamos
Located in Soquel, CA
Crisp realist landscape of two ducks on the lakeside surrounded by rolling hills near Mt Tamalpais by Luke Stamos (American, b. 1938). Unsigned; one of 3 we purchased (one of which is signed) in Los Gatos California from the buyer who acquired them from the artist. Unframed. Measures: 18"H x 24"L. Luke Stamos was born in Chicago, and began studying art at the Chicago Art Institute at age 5. His family moved to San Francisco in 1944 and became aware of California’s splendid outdoor life, and began to pursue a life-long hobby of hunting and fishing. While attending high school in Daly City...
Canvas, Oil
Robert K. White "Laguna Canyon" 4-Foot Oil Painting on Canvas
By Robert Kenneth White
Located in Miami, FL
ROBERT KENNETH WHITE (b. 1950) – "LAGUNA CANYON" Oil on Canvas ⚜ Hand Signed Lower Right and Titled on Verso ⚜ Frameless Display A GOLDEN CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE OF LIGHT AND FORM "Lag...
Canvas, Oil
