Costa Brava

Clinton Adams
Printmaking
1988

Discovery Hall, Fourth Floor

Clinton Adams (1918-2002) was an artist, a prolific teacher, and a published author. He is known for working with a variety of artistic mediums: prints, lithographs, and paintings in oil, watercolor, egg tempera, and acrylic. Though each composition is rooted in the building blocks of our world - linear shapes and geometry forms - he renders these simple structures abstract, unexpected, and irregular. The result is a unique style of geometric abstraction - with references of impressionism and cubism. His response to the Cost Brava region of Catalonia in northeastern Spain, reflects these principles.
 
Adams received his Bachelor of Education and his master’s degrees from The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
 
He then served in the military and when he returned, began his teaching career: he started as a teacher in the UCLA Art Department from 1946-1954, then became the Head of the Art Department at the University of Kentucky, then the University of Florida, and ultimately became the Dean of Fine Arts at The University of New Mexico from 1961-1976.
 
Selected Public Collections include: Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco, Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, Florida State University, Tallahassee Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Public Library, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, California University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.