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Peter Seitz Adams
Peter Seitz Adams (born August 27, 1950) is an American artist known for his landscape and figurative paintings. He is the longest serving President of the California Art Club (f. 1909) 〔See California Art Club.Org CAC Presidents page.〕 and a member of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena.
Adams has been a professional artist since the late 1970s. He has painted extensively abroad, hiking and painting his way across Asia on two expeditions in the 1980s, where he visited China, India, Pakistan, Tibet and Bhutan.〔Donald J. Haggerty, ''Leading the West: 100 Contemporary Painters and Sculptors,'' 1997, p. 48-49〕 Disguised as a Mujahideen, in 1987 he painted in Afghanistan during Russia’s long involvement there and then lectured on his experiences when he went back to the United States.〔See Haggerty's ''Leading the West'', book,〕 Adams is also a writer and editor who has written extensively for the California Art Club newsletter as well as a number of the organizations exhibition catalogs.〔See CAC website for listings of newsletter issues and contents〕 His high-keyed works, which includes plein-air landscapes, still lifes and imaginative figurative paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in private galleries and museums in California and the Western United States.〔See extensive list of museum and gallery exhibitions listed below, gleaned from web sources. See also John Hazelton's TFAOI, Traditional Fine Arts Organization online resource for museum previews and reviews〕
==Family and personal background==
Peter Adams's mother, Mary Seitz Adams (1917–2004), was a socially active homemaker and his father, Peter Adams Sr., was a businessman by vocation, but an actor by avocation. Peter Adams Senior appeared in Hollywood epics such as "The Robe" and the "Big Fisherman," Jailhouse Rock and the television series Zorro. His maternal grandfather was the playwright and Hollywood director George B. Seitz (1888–1944). Adams has two older sisters, Mary Adams O’Connell, who is a businesswoman and Aileen Adams Cowan, who is a former Secretary of State for Consumer Affairs for the State of California and an Assistant Attorney General in the Clinton Administration.〔See Southwest Blue Book, The Original Society Register of Southern California, 1997, p. 10 for family prominence and relationships.〕 Adams grew up in Beverly Hills and attended Harvard School. He is married to Elaine Shelbi. Peter Adams live in a home that has been described as an eclectic mixture of Chinese furniture and Antiques, some significant works by his teacher Theodore Lukits as well as a broad selection of some of his own works.〔Danny Medina, Art Talk, September, 1997, describes the Adams' home and lifestyle〕 Peter has constructed elaborate waterfalls and pools, as well as walls and walkways made of river stones around their Pasadena property. Peter Adams' atelier features a high pitched roof that allows him to work on large paintings and glassed shelves housing a collection of art books and his various lovers. He is an avid outdoors-man who hikes in the San Gabriel Mountains with his border collies and makes painting trips in the Sierras. He is a public speaker and raconteur.〔Eric Rhodes, A Visit with Peter Adams, Plein-Air Magazine, September, 2004, Article discusses the Adams' lifestyle〕
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