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  • The new design for the USC Catholic Community Center includes a European limestone church that will seat up to 350.Peter Adams Receives Painting Commission for USC's Caruso Catholic Center

    December 2009: American artist Peter Adams, the nationally renowned plein air landscape painter, has been commissioned to create a series of paintings for the University of Southern California's Caruso Catholic Center, a 20,000-square-foot structure that is scheduled to break ground in 2010.

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  • Peter Adams teaches painting techniques to a Pasadena-area youth from the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center Summer Camp during Plein Air Week at Kidspace Children's Museum.Peter Adams is named “Best Local Artist” by readers of Pasadena Weekly

    October 15, 2009: Peter Adams is named "Best Local Artist" by readers of Pasadena Weekly.

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  • Peter Adams Creates First Rose for Tournament of Roses Public Art Program

    October 2008: Peter Adams was selected to create for the historic Tournament of Roses Foundation the very first rose for Roses on Parade, a new public art initiative that aims to generate funds for children’s art education in Pasadena-area schools.

  • Peter Adams: Eastern Exposure

    May 1996 - Southwest Art: The San Gabriel Mountains are a mere five minutes from my home in Pasadena, CA. I often hike there with my five dogs to paint late-afternoon vistas such as Sunset View From Mt. Lowe Rendering the details of these scenes is not as important to me as trying to capture the moods of nature with all its grandeur

  • On Location With Peter Adams

    July 1997 - American Artist: “When I started college, I said I wanted to learn to paint like an Old Master, but my art teachers thought I was crazy,” Peter Adams says. Even after college, when he began attending art classes at the Otis School of Art and Design in Los Angeles and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, he had trouble finding traditional art instruction.

  • Peter Adams: Carrying on a Golden Tradition

    August/September 1997 - Art-Talk: The Pasadena morning could not have been more beautiful if it had been commissioned. The bright, intense California sun casts dappled sunlight on the elegant row of mansions set far back into their wooded lots, bringing back memories of the Great Gatsby era when life was lived on a grand scale.

  • Reuniting Humanity with Nature

    March/April 2002 - Art of the West: Nearly every evening, when Elaine and I are vacationing at our beach house in northern San Diego County, I take my pastels and three dogs and sit on the beach, along with friends and neighborhood children, to sketch the sunset over the Pacific.

  • A Visit to the San Gabriels

    November 29, 2002 - Pasadena Star-News: “The gnarled root system of this majestic sycamore in back lighting appealed to me. In the background are the hills of the San Gabriels, including Mt. Lukens and Brown Mountain. This site is between Oakwilde Campground and Switzer Falls.”

  • Peter and Elaine Adams: The Art Bridge Builders of California

    March 2004 - Art-Talk: No one in California has built more, better, or more magnificent Art bridges than Peter and Elaine Adams of Pasadena.

  • Peter Adams: The Studio

    November/December 1998 - Art of the West: You only have to look at a Peter Adams’ painting to know the artist is locked in a passionate love affair with nature. If It’s not surprising that his home and studio in Pasadena, California, are set on a one-acre lot that offers the beauty and seclusion more reminiscent of a wooded retreat than a booming city.

  • Peter Adams' Gold Medal winning painting, "Prajnaparamita, Perfection of Wisdom"Peter Adams Receives Gold Medal Award

    April 2007: Peter Adams received “Best of Show” honors at the California Art Club’s 96th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.

  • The Autry National Center’s Curator of Visual Arts, Amy Scott presents Peter Adams and his wife, Director of American Legacy Fine Arts, LLC Elaine Adams, with the John J. Geraghty AwardPeter and Elaine Adams Receive John J. Geraghty Award

    February 2007: The Autry National Center’s Curator of Visual Arts, Amy Scott presented Peter Adams and his wife, Director of American Legacy Fine Arts, LLC, Elaine Adams, with the John J. Geraghty Award for their devoted stewardship in developing the historic California Art Club and advancing traditional fine art in the American West.

  • Peter Adams' painting, "Force of Light" was exhibited at "On Location in Malibu 2006 by the California Art Club" ExhibitionExhibition: On Location in Malibu 2006 by the California Art Club

    May 2006: Peter Adams’ painting, "Force of Light," evokes nature’s eternally dynamic and omnipresent power.

  • Juror of Awards: "15th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils"

    2006: Peter Adams served as the Juror of Awards for the 15th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils, presented by the Oil Painters of America.

  • Peter Adams' painting "Autumn Sunset; Crystal Cove, California" was one of four works by Adams featured in the Masters of the American West Exhibition and Sale at the Autry National Center's Museum of the American WestExhibition: 8th Annual Masters of the American West

    February 2006: Peter Adams' painting "Autumn Sunset; Crystal Cove, California" was one of four works by Adams featured in the Masters of the American West Exhibition and Sale at the Autry National Center's Museum of the American West from February 4 through March 5, 2006.

  • Exhibition: From Sea to Shining Sea Tours the U.S.

    May 2004: Peter Adams was among the select group of nationally recognized American artists chosen to participate in the traveling exhibition, From Sea to Shining Sea: A Reflection of America.

  • Peter Adams’ painting Minerva Terrace was featured in the exhibition “Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America’s First National Park.”Exhibition: "Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America’s First National Park" Tours the U.S.

    September 2004: Peter Adams’ painting Minerva Terrace was featured in the exhibition “Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America’s First National Park,”which was organized by the Autry National Center’s Museum of the American West, under the leadership of Amy Scott, Curator of Visual Arts.

  • A Visit With Peter Adams: Imagination at Work

    September 2004 - Plein Air Magazine: The long drive leading up to the large estate in Pasadena, California, brings the visitor to an artist’s own private version of paradise. Lush gardens, stone terraced walls and 19th-century European and Asian sculptures are designed to create a memorable experience.

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