Pat Adams — Biography



1928 Born
Education University of California, BA 1949 Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Epsilon

 

Education
University of California, BA 1949
Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Epsilon

Grants, Awards, Residencies

Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bordighera, Italy, "Americans in Europe" Purchase Prize, 1952
Fulbright to France, 1956
Yaddo Foundation Residency, Summer 1954, 1964, 1969, 1970
Mac Dowell Colony Residency, Summer 1968, 1972
National Council of Arts Award in Painting, 1968
National Endowment for the Arts Award in Painting, 1976, 1987
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hassam Purchase Award, 1983, 1985, 1989
College Art Association Distinguished teaching of Art Award, 1984
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Award in Art, 1986
Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, 1990
Honorary Vice Chairman National Association of Women Artists, 1992
National Academy of Design, Associate, 1992; Academician, 1993
Dartmouth College, Artist in Residence, Winter 1994
Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, 1995
American Academy of Arts and Letters Jimmy Ernst Award, 1996

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2001 Zabriskie Gallery, New York: Paintings biennially since 1956
        Monotypes: 1999, 1994, 1993
        Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flyn Performing Arts Center, Burlington, Vermont
1994 Jaffe/Friede/Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
1989 Anne Weber Gallery, Georgetown, Maine
1988 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Retrospective 1979-88
        Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C.
        New York Academy of Sciences, New York
        American Academy of Sciences, New York
1986 Haggin Museum, Stockton, California
        University of Virginia, Charlottesville
1983 Image Gallery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
1982 Columbia Museum of Art and Science, South Carolina
        Artemisia Gallery, Chicago
        Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
1980 Barbara Fiedler Gallery, Washington, D.C.
        Galerie Zabriskie, Paris
1979 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Retrospective 1954-78
1978 Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Jersey
        Zabriskie Gallery: 25th Anniversary Survey 1952-78
1977 Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington
1972 Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1967 Windham College, Putney, Vermont
1966 Middlebury college Art Museum, Vermont
1959 Kanegis Gallery, Boston
        Wheaton College, Wheaton, Massachusetts
1954 Korman Gallery, New York
1950 Haggin Museum Art Gallery, Stockton, California

Group Shows
2000 "Simple Statements" University of Rhode Island, Kingston
        "Celebrating Contemporary Art in New England, Recent Acquisitions",
         De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1999 "Works by Women: 20th Century Art from the Permanent Collection",
        Middlebury College Art Museum, Vermont
        "Artists' Choice: Beyond the Millenium", Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Vermont
1998 "Contemporary Selections from National Academy at Silvermine", Silvermine Guild Art Center, Connecticut
        "The Pulled Image", Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont, Vermont Studio Press
1997 "Out there", Beth Urdang Gallery
        "Abstract Tendencies", Rider University, New Jersey
1996 "Recipients of Honors and Awards In Art", American Academy of Art and
        Institute of Art and Letters, New York
        Art in Embassies Program: Bern, Switzerland
1995 170th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
        "Selected Paintings" Fleming Museum, Burlington University of Vermont
        "Faculty Works on Paper", Art and Architecture Gallery, Yale School of Art,
        New Haven, Connecticut
1994 "A view of One's Own", Voorhees-Zimmerle Muse3um, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
        Art in Embassies Program: Mexico City, Mexico
1993 "Late Modern Drawings, 1960-1970s", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C
        "Contemporary Monoprints", Associated American Artists, New York
1992 "Zabriskie 1991-92, New York/Paris", Galerie Zabriskie, Paris
1991 "Traditional Sources, Contemporary Visions", Webb/Parsons Gallery in collaboration with the Shelburne Museum, Burlington, Vermont
1991 "Transformations", Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Vermont
        "From the Bennington College Collection", Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1990 "Yale Painting Faculty Exhibition 1950-1990" (Honoring Bernard Chaet), Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York
        "Faculty: 1990", Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont
1989 "New England Art Now", traveled throughout New England
1988 "Painters Make Prints", traveling: Maryland Institute of Art; Hood College, Frederick, Maryland; Frostburg State University, Lincoln, Maryland
1987 "Artist/Printmaker", Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland College of Art
        "Faculty Works", Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont
        "New England Now: Contemporary Artists from Six States", traveling:
        De Cordova Museum, Massachusetts; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine;
        List Gallery, Brown University, Rhode Island; New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut; Currier Gallery, New Hampshire; Fleming Museum, University of           Vermont
1986 "Recipients of Awards in Art", American Academy of Art and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1985 "Recent Acquisitions", Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
1984 "Contemporary Artists in Vermont", Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
1983 "Selection from the collections", Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
        "National Invitational Exhibition", University of Hawaii at Hilo
        "Recent Works", American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C.
        "Aspects of Color", Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
        "Art and Technology: Offset Prints", Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1982 "20/20: Twenty Artists/Twenty Galleries", Terry Dintenfass and Grace
        Borgenicht Galleries, New York
        "Graham Gund Collection: A Private Eye". Boston Museum of Fine Arts
1981 "Recent Acquisitions", Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
        "Invitation '81", Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
        "For Love and Money: Dealers Choose", Pratt Institute, Manhattan Center Gallery, New York
1980 "Draw '80", College of Saint Rose Art Gallery,
        "Painterly Abstraction", Brockton art Museum, Massachusetts
        "Islamic Allusions", Alternative Museum, New York
        Invitational Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

Public Collections
Amon Carter Museum
Bennington College, Usdan Gallery, Vermont
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Hirshhorn Museum an Sculpture Center, Washington, D.C.
Middlebury College Art Museum, Vermont
Montclair Museum of American Art, New Jersey
National Academy of Design, new York
New Britain Museum of American art, Connecticut
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Philadelphia Museum, Pennsylvania
J.D. Speed Art Museum
University of Arizona art museum, Tucson
University of North Carolina Art Museum, Greensboro
University of Vermont, Robert Hull Fleming Museum
University of California Art Museum, Berkeley
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Williams College Art Museum
Charles A. Wustrum Museum of Fine Arts
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, Connecticut
Jane Voorhees-Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University