Biography

Born 1925, Fort Plain, New York – 2006, San Francisco, California

Education

1943 – 45 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 1945 Atelier 17, New York, NY, with Stanley William Hayter 1945, 1947 Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, New York, NY 1947 Columbia University, New York, NY 1955 Ecole Nationale des Art Decoratif, Aubusson, France Apprenticeship with Jean Lurçat, Saint-Céré, France

Teaching/Visiting Artist/Workshops

1961 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1963 American Academy in Rome. Painter in Residence 1972 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1976 International Symposium on Tapestry, San Francisco, CA. Panelist 1978 University of California, Davis, CA. Distinguished Visiting Professor 1986 Arrowmont College of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinberg, TN Pacific Grove, CA. Watercolor workshop 1987 Arrowmont College of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinberg, TN Carmel Valley, CA. Watercolor Workshop Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA. Life Drawing Workshop 1988 Dominican College, San Rafael, CA. Watercolor workshop Walnut Creek Civic Arts Center, Walnut Creek, CA. Watercolor workshop Shaw Island, WA. Watercolor workshop University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Lecture and demonstration San Francisco Women Artists, San Francisco, CA. Lecture 1989 Dominican College, San Rafael, CA. Watercolor workshop Tapestry Symposium, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Lecture, symposium panel 1990 Tapestry Forum, Portland, OR. Lecture Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA. Lecture in conjunction with retrospective exhibition

Solo Exhibitions

1957 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Tapestries by Mark Adams, December 1, 1957 – January 5, 1958 1958 San Diego State College, San Diego, CA, Modern Tapestries by Mark Adams 1959 M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, Tapestries: Mark Adams, March 29 – April 30. Brochure San Jose State College, San Jose, CA, Tapestries by Mark Adams 1961 Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Contemporary Tapestries: Mark Adams, July 25 – September 10 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, Contemporary Tapestries by Mark Adams, September 23 – October 22. Brochure 1962 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams: Tapestries 1964 French & Company, New York, NY, Tapestries by Mark Adams, March – April. Brochure 1966 Hansen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams, October 29 – November 23 1967 Santa Rosa Public Library, Santa Rosa, CA, Mark Adams: Tapestries and Drawings, November 26 – December 17 1968 Hansen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams

opposite: 47. Father’s Hat, 1977

1970 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams: An Exhibition of Tapestries, Paintings, Stained Glass Windows and Architectural Designs, February 20 – April 26. Catalogue Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR, Mark Adams: An Exhibition of Tapestries, October 13 – November 3. Brochure 1971 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams 1972 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, Mark Adams 1978 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams: Recent Watercolors, September 25 – October 18 1980 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams: Watercolors and Tapestries, April 16 – May 17. Catalogue 1981 Graham Galleries, New York, NY, Mark Adams: Recent Watercolors, November 7 – December 5 1982 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams: Recent Watercolors, December 15, 1982 – January 11, 1983 1983 Hastings Gallery of Art, Hastings College of the Law, University of California, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams: Prints and Watercolors, October 19 – November 18. Brochure 1984 Graham Modern, New York, NY, Mark Adams: Watercolor and Tapestries, June 13 – July 6 1985 Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, CA, Mark Adams, January 30 – March 14. Travel to Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA, March 16 – April 28 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams: Recent Watercolors, April 9 – May 11 1987 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams: Paintings, September 8 – October 3 1989 Jane Haslem Salon, Washington, DC, Mark Adams: Tapestries, Drawings, Prints, March 15 – April 15 1990 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, Mark Adams: A Retrospective, January 14 – March 4. Brochure John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams: Paintings and Watercolors, November 12, 1990 – January 5, 1991 1994 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams: Paintings, Watercolors and Prints, June 8 – July 23 2007 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams: Watercolor, June 7 – July 7. Catalogue 2010 Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Mark Adams: Translation of Light, August 24 - December 10. 3-Fold, Color Brochure 2012 San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA, Mark Adams, May 15 – July 29. Catalogue

Two-Artist Exhibitions

1954 Gump’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Beth Van Hoesen—Drawings/Mark Adams—Tapestries, October 28 – November 11 1957 Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA, Contemporary Tapestries by Mark Adams; Dry Point Prints by Beth Van Hoesen, December 17, 1957 – January 5, 1958 1969 Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA, Tapestries by Mark Adams and Graphics by Beth Van Hoesen 1973 Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams: Drawings, Paintings, Tapestries/Beth Van Hoesen: Intaglio Prints, July 27 – October 15 1985 University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN, Two California Artists: Mark Adams and Beth Van Hoesen: Prints, Drawings, Watercolors, September 9 – 27. Travel to La Grange College, La Grange, GA, October 1987 Pacific Presbyterian Professional Building, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams/ Beth Van Hoesen 1988 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Beth Van Hoesen and Mark Adams Cunningham Art Gallery, [location unknown], Beth Van Hoesen and Mark Adams, December 1995 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Mark Adams, A Way with Color; Beth Van Hoesen, Works on Paper, November 7 – December 2 2012 The Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, NY, Mark Adams and Beth Van Hoesen: Life Observed Up-Close, March 29 – June 24

Group Exhibitions

1952 M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, Religious Art by California Artists, October – November. Catalogue 1953 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association 1954 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 18th Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, July 8 – August 1. Catalogue

1956 Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY, Craftsmanship in a Changing World, September 20 – November 4. Catalogue 1957 Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY, Wall Hangings and Rugs, April 12 – May 12. Brochure M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, 9th Annual Art Directors Exhibition of Advertising Art, May 25 – June 16. Brochure St. Regis Church, Holy Name Parish, Birmingham, MI, National Religious Art Exhibition, October 4 – 30. Brochure Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY, The Patron Church, October 11, 1957 – January 5, 1958. Catalogue 1958 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX, Religious Art of the Western World, March 23 – May 25. Catalogue American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition, God and Man in Art, March 1958 – March 1959. Catalogue Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY 1959 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 78th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, April 2 – May 3. Catalogue San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, Two Buildings: San Francisco 1959, August 21–September 20. Travel to Portland Art Museum, OR, October 6 – November 1. Catalogue 1960 Grace Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA, Trinity 1960: Church Art Today California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, A Selection of Works Purchased by the Art Commission from San Francisco’s Annual Art Festivals, 1946–1959, April 21 – May 23. Brochure 1961 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 24th Annual Drawing, Print, and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, February 2 – March 5. Catalogue Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Fresh Paint Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, Contemporary Tapestries, April 27 – June 11. Catalogue San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, American Business and the Arts, September 14 – October 15. Catalogue San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 25th Annual Drawing, Print, and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, October 21 – November 19. Catalogue 1962 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, California Design Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY, Collaboration: Artist and Architect, March 16 – May 13. Catalogue San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 81st Annual Painting Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute, April 20 – May 20. Catalogue Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1ère Bienale Internationale de la Tapisserie, June 16 – September 17. Catalogue Tacoma Art League Summer Festival, Tacoma, WA, Paintings, Sculpture and Crafts of Pacific Coast Artists, July 22. Catalogue California Council, American Institute of Architects Convention, Monterey, CA, Fine Arts for Architecture, October 4 – 6 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, Fourth Winter Invitational Exhibition, December 15, 1962 – January 27, 1963. Catalogue 1963 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 5 Bay Area Artists, February 11 – March 1 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Vistas. Travel 1964 Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY, Collector: Object/ Environment, June 4 – September 12. Catalogue Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2ème Bienale Internationale de la Tapisserie, June 18 – September 26. Catalogue San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 84th Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute, August 13 – September 12. Catalogue City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, Religious Art 1966 E. B. Crocker Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Newman Guild 1966 Religious Art Invitational, February 26 – March 27. Catalogue Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, The 5th Biennial National Religious Art Exhibition, October 7 – 30. Catalogue Norfolk Museum, Norfolk, VA, 400 Years of Tapestry Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA, California Design 1969 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 16th Painting Annual 1969. Brochure 1970 E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, West Coast ‘70: Painters & Sculptors, September 19 – October 25. Catalogue 1976 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, Five Centuries of Tapestry Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, The Modern Aubusson Tapestry, February 14 – March 18

California State University, Hayward, CA, Fiber and Clay 1977 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, Mark Adams, Gordon Cook, Beth Van Hoesen—Work on Paper, April 29 – June 8 Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA, Invitational American Drawing Exhibition, September 17 – October 30. Catalogue San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Contemporary Tapestries 1978 Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Contemporary Tapestries 1979 Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA, Tapestries: 15th–20th Centuries, July 25 –September 10 1980 Art Gallery, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, Water Works, March 17 – April 11 1981 Art Gallery, California State University, Hayward, and California State College, Long Beach, CA, Drawings from the Figure 1982 Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI, New American Graphics II, September 20 – October 15. Travel through 1984 by the Art Museum Association of America. Catalogue 1983 Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Figure Drawings: Five San Francisco Artists, January 5 – February 12. Catalogue Glastonbury Gallery, San Francisco, CA, A Selection of Contemporary Drawings, February 17 – March 31 Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA, California Contemporary: Recent Work of 23 Artists, May 1 – 29. Catalogue De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA, Bon a Tirer— Fine Arts Presses of the Bay Area, September 27 – December 11 1984 Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA, Painters at U.C. Davis: Part II, February 26 – March 30. Catalogue De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, The Art of Connoisseurship and the Print San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Recent Acquisitions Orr’s Gallery, San Diego, CA, Contemporary American Realists, November 19, 1984 – January 19, 1985 1985 Glastonbury Gallery, San Francisco, CA, The Small Press Phenomenon: Work from Eighteen Bay Area Fine Art Presses, March 19 – April 18 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA, American Realism: Seventy-five Contemporary Artists, November 5 – December 21 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors, November 7, 1985 – January 12, 1986. Travel. Catalogue 1986 Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Life Drawing–1980s: Seven San Francisco Artists, January 7 – February 1. Catalogue San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA, Airport Cafe: An Exhibition About Food and Art, April 14 – July 21. Catalogue Cheney Cowles Memorial Art Museum, Spokane, WA, Tapestry— Contemporary Imagery/Ancient Tradition: United States, United Kingdom and Canada, August 26 – October 5. Travel through the U.S. and Canada. Catalogue San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, The Golden Land, November 22, 1986 – January 18, 1977 1987 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, Master Exhibition Series, June 7 – August 2 Achenbach Foundatiot n for the Graphic Arts, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Part Two: 1950 – 1986, Summer Shasta College, Redding, CA, Watercolors, August 31 – November 9 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, The Artists of California: A Group Portrait in Mixed Media, November 14, 1987 – January 10, 1988. Travel. Brochure 1988 Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA, National Invitational Drawing Exhibition, February 4 – March 3 Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Still Life ‘88, March 15 – April 16 Northern Arizona University Art Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ, Images in Contemporary Tapestry ‘88, March 24 – April 22 Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Flo Allen: A Model for a Generation, August 18 – September 5 Scheuer Tapestry Gallery, New York, NY, Tapestries with a Floral Theme, September 7 – October 15 Jane Haslem Salon, Washington, DC, Consonance, September 11 – October 22. Catalogue Sacred Heart Schools, Menlo Park, CA, Angels, December 6, 1988 – January 30, 1989 1989 University of Maryland, College Park, MD, American Tapestry: Weaving Since the 1930s and Its European Roots, March 31 – April 1

University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Arizona Celebrates, April 2 – September 10. Brochure Jane Haslem Salon, Washington, DC 1990 Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI, Flowers in Art, June 27 – August 5. Catalogue Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA, Contemporary Realist Painting: Perception and Experience, May 30 – July 21 Jane Haslem Salon, Washington, DC, Summer: Cool of the Shade, July – August 1991 Jane Haslem Salon, Washington, DC, American Self-Portraits in Prints John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Small Format Works on Paper, June 26 – August 3 Salem Art Association, Salem, OR, The Art of the Tapestry Jane Haslem Salon, Washington, DC, Awash in Color 1992 I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA, Works from the John Berggruen Gallery, June 27 – July 24 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: 3 Decades, September 20, 1992 – January 3, 1993. Catalogue Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, The Intimate Collaboration: Prints from Teaberry Press. Travel. Catalogue Modesto Junior College Art Gallery, Modesto, CA, October – November John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Objects of Affection: Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper, December 8, 1992 – January 2, 1993 1993 Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Artists’ Self-Portraits in Black & White, May 5 – 29 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Still Life 1963 – 1993, August 6 – September 12. Catalogue 1994 Friesen Gallery, Seattle, WA, Twenty-Six Artists: A Selection of Works from John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, February 8 – March 20 1995 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Objects of Desire John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, XXV Years 1996 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, The Robert Arneson Tribute Exhibition Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID, A Collaboration 1997 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Structures: Buildings in American Art, 1900 – 1997 Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID, Second Annual Collaboration San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA, The Fabric of Life: 150 Years of Northern California Fiber Art History, September – October. Catalogue 1998 Art Gallery, Modesto Junior College, Modesto, CA, Related: An Exhibition of Artist Couples, August 27 – September 25 1999 Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA, Prints from made in California, February 2004 b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA, Made in California Intaglio Editions: 24 Years of Prints, February – April 3 2007 International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907 – 2007