Kenneth Miller Adams papers
name: label: Creator
content: Adams, Kenneth M.
label: Creator
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts
label: Creator
content: Treasury Relief Art Project
label: Creator
content: Public Works of Art Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project
label: Names
content: Jones, Cecil H.
label: Names
content: Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946
place: label: Place
content: United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
label: Place
content: United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Kansas
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New Mexico
label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- New Mexico
label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- Kansas
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- Kansas
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- New Mexico
label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Kansas
label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Mexico
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- Kansas
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- New Mexico
label: Topic
content: Art and state -- Kansas
label: Topic
content: Art and state -- New Mexico
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1964 by Kenneth Miller Adams.
creator: label: Creator
content: Adams, Kenneth M.
label: Creator
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts
label: Creator
content: Treasury Relief Art Project
label: Creator
content: Public Works of Art Project
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content: Kenneth Miller Adams papers
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Kenneth Miller Adams (1897-1966) was a painter, muralist, and lithographer in New Mexico. Born in Topeka, Kansas, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League before serving in World War I. In 1924 he moved to Taos, New Mexico and joined the Taos Society of Artists. In 1933 he worked for the Treasury Relief Art Project and the Public Works of Art Project. He moved to Albuquerque in 1938 and later taught at the University of New Mexico until he retired in 1963. Adams was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1961.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel (21 items on partial microfilm reel)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1938
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.adamkenn
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel NDA 1 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This microfilm collection of the Kenneth Miller Adams papers consists of a letter, dated December 1933, from a Public Works of Art Project official on a routine matter, and a letter, dated May 1933, from Cecil H. Jones of the Treasury Relief Art Project in which Jones tells Adams he is trying to have him transferred to the WPA Federal Arts Project. Also included is correspondence, 1936-1937, with Edward Rowan and others of the Section of Fine Arts regarding Section mural competitions. This correspondence includes contracts for two murals painted by Adams – one in Goodland, Kansas (1936) depicting a scene with a figure and a buggy, and one in Deming, New Mexico (1937) entitled Mountains and Yucca. A photograph of each of the murals is also included.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds the oral history interview with Kenneth M. Adams, 1964 April 23 conducted by Sylvia Glidden Loomis.