Peter Adams

Contemporary American artist Peter Adams received his training at Art Center College of Design, Otis Art Institute, and Instituto de Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende. However, it was not until he enrolled at the Lukits Academy of Fine Arts in Los Angeles that he finally found the traditional artistic philosophies he so admired. At the Lukits Academy, Adams spent seven years in diligent formal training, eventually becoming the personal apprentice to the renowned mural, landscape, and portrait painter Theodore N. Lukits (1897–1992).

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Since 1993 Adams has served as president of the prestigious California Art Club, which was established 1909 and is one of the largest and most active professional arts organizations in the country. He serves on the board of directors for the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California, and is on the advisory boards of directors at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco and the American Society of Portrait Artists in Montgomery, Alabama. In addition, he is an elected Associate Guild Member, Honorary Emeritus, of the American Society of Classical Realism in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Adams is a Signature Member of the California Art Club, Pastel Society of America, and Plein Air Painters of America, as well as a Master Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America.

In 2007 the Autry National Center of the American West gave Adams the John J. Geraghty Award for the advancement of traditional fine art in the American West, and his artist peers at the California Art Club’s 96th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition presented him with the Gold Medal for Best Painting. Also in 2007, the historic Pasadena Tournament of Roses commissioned Adams to create the “Pasadena Rose,” to help raise funds for children’s arts programs. In 2009, Adams won the Lifetime Achievement Award from Fine Art Connoisseur magazine at the California Art Club’s 98th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition. Adams was recently commissioned by the University of California Catholic Center to produce paintings of the 14 stations of the cross.

Peter Adams is represented by American Legacy Fine Arts LLC, Pasadena, California.