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Adams, Mark
(b Fort Plain, NY, 27 Oct 1925). American tapestry artist, painter and stained-glass designer. He studied painting at Syracuse University and with Hans Hoffmann in New York, where he was influenced by the medieval tapestries in the Cloisters and also by the work of Matisse. In the 1950s Adams was apprenticed to the influential French tapestry designer Jean Lurçat, from whom he learnt the bold colours and clear imagery that characterize his work. He also studied at the Ecole Nationale d’Art Décoratif in Aubusson before beginning to use a series of workshops, notably that of Marguerite and Paul Avignon, who wove his first nationally acclaimed tapestry, Phoenix and the Golden Gate (1957). Flight of Angels (1962) was exhibited at the first Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie in Lausanne. In 1976 his cartoon of California Poppies (San Francisco, CA Pal. Legion of Honor; see fig.) was woven for the Five Centuries of Tapestry exhibition at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, as a demonstration piece. Later tapestries, for example White Block (1977) and Sunset with Palms (1979), were woven by the San Francisco Tapestry Workshop, with which he was associated. Public commissions included a series of panels depicting garden scenes for the San Francisco International Airport (1981–3) as well as designs for stained-glass windows, notably two for the Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco (Fire and Water, 1971–4). He painted a self-portrait in 1982 (artist’s col., see Johnson, Mills and Price, p. 25).
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