Kenneth Miller Adams
1897 – 1966
BORN IN
Topeka, Kansas
KNOWN FOR
Figure and landscape painting, graphics, teaching
At age 16, Kenneth Adams worked for G.M. Stone in Topeka before entering the Art Institute of Chicago in 1916.
Adams served as an army private in World War I and later studied at the Art Students League of New York beginning in 1919 where he was a pupil of K.H. Miller, George Bridgman, Maurice Stern, and Eugene Speicher.
Adams spent his summers with Andrew Dasburg in Woodstock, NY and from 1921-23 Adams studied in France and Italy painting landscapes that he exhibited in Topeka, Kansas. He moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1924 and became the youngest and last member of the Taos Society of Artists in 1926.
