2016
Contemporary American artist Peter Adams is esteemed for his beautiful Impressionist paintings. He uses oil paints to create vivid landscapes and figurative works that saturate the canvas with color. Adams is known for combining the Western artistic tradition with Eastern influences picked up from his extensive travels.
Adams was born and raised in California. He studied at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California; the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles; the Instituto de Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; and the Lukits Academy of Fine Arts in Los Angeles.
Four of Adams’s seven years at the Luktis Academy were spent as an apprentice to Theodore Lukits, a renowned Impressionist painter. He was also introduced to Chinese porcelains and sculptures, which sparked an interest in Asian art that spurred him to travel. In 1981, he traveled and painted unescorted through the People’s Republic of China, becoming the first American artist to do so. He was also the only American artist to travel with the mujahideen rebels of Afghanistan in 1987.
Adams became the president of the California Art Club in 1993, a role he has served in ever since. Established in 1909, the organization only had 80 members at the time. Under his leadership, the membership has grown to around 3,000.
In 2007, he earned the John J. Geraghty Award for advancing traditional fine art as well as the gold medal for the best painting from his fellow members at the California Art Club. In 2009, Fine Art Connoisseur presented Adams with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Adams is represented by American Legacy Fine Arts in Pasadena. His works are in the collections of the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, California; the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California; the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California; and Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Peter Adams’s paintings.
$2,250
H 14 in W 9 in D 1 in
Zen , Oil Painting, European Artist , Still Life , Florence Academy, Figurative
Located in Houston, TX
Zen is a 14 x 9 Oil Painting by European /Croatian artist Tina Orsolic Dalessio who is classically trained. Tina Orsolic Dalessio is a figurative and still-life painter born in Z...
Oil
Dream Mystique
By Wallace Bassford
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Dream Mystique Artist signed and titled, new frame canvas 24x20 Wallace Bassford was an American painter and illustrator, born in 1900 in St. Louis Missouri, he attended the St. Loui...
Oil, Canvas
China Plight
By Alexandro SANTANA
Located in Atlanta, GA
You meet the Spanish artist Alexandro Santana and you think, cripes, can he be for real? So handsome, so flamboyant, so seductive, so amusing -- you’...
Oil
$700
H 19 in W 19 in
Jianbang Zhang Impressionist Original Oil Painting "Untitled"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Untitled Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 19 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2000 Circa A...
Canvas, Oil
$3,750
H 30 in W 40 in
Untitled - 27, Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting by Adela Smith Lintelmann
By Adela Smith Lintelmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Adela Smith Lintelmann, American (1902 - 1996) - Untitled - 27, Medium: Oil on Canvas, Size: 30 in. x 40 in. (76.2 cm x 101.6 cm)
Oil
"Modern Gallery, " Oil Painting
By Louis Recchia
Located in Denver, CO
Louis Recchia's (US based) "Modern Gallery" is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas. About the Artist: Louis Recchia has been producing contemporary art in Denver for over ...
Canvas, Oil
Serendipity, Impressionist Oil Painting by Diane Monet
By Diane Monet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Diane Monet’s contemporary Impressionistic style features the same bright, airy pigments in visible brushstrokes found throughout the genre while creating original compositions with ...
Oil
Atelier Scene
Located in Astoria, NY
Philip Laughlin (American, 1936-2024), Atelier Scene with Nude Figure, Pastel on Board, 1986, signed and dated lower left, signed and with Art Students League of New York label to re...
Oil Pastel, Board
Peter Walsh 'Hallucinatory Mash-Up'
By Peter Walsh 1
Located in New York, NY
A phantasmagoric mash-up of Goya etchings, in day-glo spray paint and oil. Hallucinatory Mash-Up, 2025 Oil, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas 16 x 12 in / 40.64 x 30.48 cm Brooklyn...
Canvas, Oil
"Remover of Obstacles" Oil Painting
By Calvin Lai
Located in Denver, CO
Calvin Lai's (US based) "Remover of Obstacles" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a still life of a black elephant statue and a metal Lord Ganesha statue...
Oil, Wood Panel
Two Lohans and Kwan Yin
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Peter Adams" on lower left FRAMED: 31.75" x 27.75" x 1.625" UNFRAMED: 24" x 20" Artist Statement “Among my mo...
Oil, Panel
Beauty in Nocturne: Ruckstull's Sculpture of Evening
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Peter Adams" on lower right FRAMED: 38" x 32" x 2.5" UNFRAMED: 30" x 24" Artist Statement “All the objects in t...
Oil, Panel
Garden Friends
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Peter Adams" on lower left. FRAMED: 22.75"x x18.75" x 1.75" UNFRAMED: 16" x 12" Exhibited The Poetry of Still ...
Oil, Panel
Buddha Revealed; Huntington Gardens
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquire by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Peter Adams" on lower right UNFRAMED:16" x 12" FRAMED:22.5" x 17.75" x 1" Exhibited California Art Club Gallery at The Old...
Oil, Panel
Mystic Science, Making of Kombucha
By Nikita Budkov
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "Budkov" on lower right FRAMED: 23.5" x 23.5" x 1.25" UNFRAMED: 16" x 16" Artist Statement “Everything I have here is an ingredient or a utensil used to make kombucha. Well, maybe books are not that essential and neither are the big wooden spoons, but they look good in the composition. Well, I also did not show any scoby—a bacterial yeast culture which is the main ingredient— although one could argue that scoby was in one of the glass bottles before we used it to make our homebrew. That’s what my wife does. We have full shelves of homemade kombucha in bottles with all different flavors, suited for all different tastes. Great stuff...
Linen, Oil
Waiting for their Shepard's Voice
By Daniel Warren Pinkham
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Signed "D.W. Pinkham" on lower right. UNFRAMED: 24" x 24" FRAMED: 33" x 33" x 2.25" Artist Statement "Painted in Meeker Colorado on a bright shine filled day, these sheep barns were electric with color, bounced light and energy. As the sheep wandered in the yard, I found one who's attention was lifted upward, seemingly listening for a call in the distance, not a bad metaphor." —Daniel W...
Canvas, Oil, Panel
