Artist: Kenneth Miller Adams (1897-1966)

Kenneth M. Adams, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Kenneth M. Adams, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0087047

Kenneth Adams, ~ 1935, by Will Connell, Harwood Museum of Art, 1981.0063.0000

Kenneth M. Adams

Kenneth Adams, ~1968, bronze sculpture by Juan Dell (1933 - 2019), gift of the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Harwood Museum of Art, 1980.0432.0010

The purpose of this page is to bring together images of Kenneth Adams' artwork. I'm starting with paintings and drawings. He's got a bunch of lithographs, too, but I'm not including those (at least not yet). Hover over an image to see more information about each piece. You can read his Wikipedia page here. And you can read Lloyd Lozes Goff's 1949 article, "Kenneth M. Adams" in the New Mexico Quarterly here.

Works are organized as follows:

Oil Paintings

Landscapes
Portraits
Still Lifes

Watercolor Paintings
Murals
Drawings

Oil Paintings

Landscapes

oil on canvas, 21 x 25.5 in. — French Landscape, ~ 1922

oil, 26 x 31.5 in. — Olive Trees

oil on canvas, 40.6 x 61 cm. — California White Oak, San Ramon Valley

oil on canvas, 19 x 25 in. — Untitled, 1923

oil on canvas, 25.63 x 31.75 in. — Hacienda, Taos, New Mexico, 1923

Taos, NM, 1924

oil on canvas, 24 x 32 in. — Taos Plaza, ~ 1926

oil on canvas, 18 x 30 in. — Autumn Afternoon

Walpi

oil, 20 x 16 in. — Lower Hondo

oil on canvas, 24 × 30 in. — View of Lobo Mountain

The Talpa Ridge, Taos

A Street in Taos

An Old Roadway

Portraits

oil, 25 x 18 in. — Nude

oil, 39.5 x 38 in. — The On Deck Circle

oil on paper, 16 x 12 in. — Figure in Scarf, ~ 1920

oil on canvas, 26 x 32 in. — Taos Interior, 1924

oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arvin Gottlieb — Taos Indian Woman, ~ 1920-1930

oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arvin Gottlieb — Deer Track (Pa-ee-na), after 1924

oil painting, 20 1/16 x 16 1/16 in. — Muchacho, ~ 1930

oil, 30 x 30 in. — Taos Hoop Dancer

oil on canvas — Reapers (Harvest), 1946

oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arvin Gottlieb — Evening, ~ 1950-1960

oil on canvas, 50 x 36 in. — The Dry Ditch, 1964

oil on canvas, 40 x 25.25 in. — Taos Indian Evening, 1965

oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in. — Portrait of a Gentleman

oil on canvas mounted on board, 30.5 × 25 in. — Self Portrait

Still Lifes

oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in. — Mixed Bouquet, ~ 1930

oil on Masonite, 24 x 20 in. — Yellow Zinnias & White Daisies, 1959

oil on board, 20 x 16 in. — Still Life, 1964

oil on board, Mitchell Brown Fine Art Inc., Larsen Art Auction — Zinnias

oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in. — Floral Still Life

oil, 24 x 20 in. — Iceland Poppies

Petunias

Untitled

oil, 20 x 24 in. — Zinnias

oil — Untitled

oil — Untitled

Watercolor Paintings

watercolor on paper, 12.75 x 19.75 in. — Mountain Landscape

watercolor on paper, 13.5 x 20 in. — October

watercolor on paper, 12.25 x 18.75 in. — New Mexico Landscape with Houses

watercolor on paper, 13 x 19.5 in. — Desert Landscape

Murals

Mural in Goodland, KS Post Office — Rural Free Delivery, 1937

Mural in Deming, NM Post Office — Mountains and Yucca, 1937

Mural in University of New Mexico's Zimmerman Library — Three Peoples, 1940 (1 of 4 panels)

Drawings

5.5 x 4 in. — Untitled

17 x 14 in. — Untitled

conte crayon — Nude

charcoal on paper verso — Untitled

ink on paper, 7.5 x 9 in. — The Card Players, 1922

16 x 12 in. — Untitled

graphite on paper, 10 x 10 in. — Taos Woman, ~ 1926

Conté crayon on paper, 14 x 12 in. — Taos Woman, ~ 1926

drawing, 9 3/4 x 8 in. — Portrait of an Old Woman, 1929

Francisca

Conté crayon on paper, 12 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. — Iris

5.5 x 4 in. — Untitled

Ken's sister-in-law — Minnie S. Adams

5.5 x 7.5 in.? — Woman plastering

Untitled

9 x 13 in.? — Papa Ragetti

graphite on paper, 9 1/2 x 14 in. — Study of dogs and horses

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