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Clinton Adams

American, born 1918

Biography"Clinton Adams, lithographer, painter, scholar, critic, educator, and author, was born in Glendale, California in 1819. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles. After serving in the military, he returned to UCLA in 1946 to begin the first stage of his distinguished teaching career. Adams also taught at the Otis Art Institute and went on to head the art departments at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and the University of Florida in Gainesville. In 1948 Adams met the printer Lynton Kistler and began a long association with him. Working at Kistler's lithographic workshop, Adams produced a series of black and white modernist lithographs based on the still-life. In 1959, he joined forces with June Wayne in planning the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, which opened in Los Angeles in 1960 with Adams as its founding associate director. In 1961, Adams accepted the position as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico and moved to Albuquerque. Tamarind relocated to Albuquerque in 1970 and Adams became the director, a position he held for the next fifteen years. Adams' influence on lithography in America cannot be overstressed. Highly motivated, he has written numerous articles and books on lithography, including _The Tamarind Book of Lithography: Art and Techniques_ and _American Lithographs 1900-1960_ and _Crayonstone: The Life and Work of Bolton Brown_. Adams has earned many accolades. His work is held in public and private collections internationally, including the New York Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, and the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts."

(from _Modernism in California Printmaking, 1940-1965: An Exhibition of Printmakers Working in the Idioms of Abstraction and Modernism_, November 1998 at the Annex Galleries in Santa Rosa, CA)

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