David Livingstone Adam timeline
Adam, David Livingstone[1]
BORN: 1883 Glasgow, Scotland
DIED: June 20, 1924 Chicago[2]
MARRIED: ?
TRAINING
1905, 1912, 1915 Art Institute of Chicago, evenings
Brussels Royal Academy
Brussels with Jean Delville
Glasgow School of Art, Maurice Greiffenhagen
ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT
TEACHING
RESIDENCES
1919 Chicago
TRAVEL
1917-1923 Saugatuck, Michigan (summers)[3]
c.1919 American Expeditionary Forces, Europe, engineer corps[4]
1920 Texas[5]
1921 Provincetown, Massachusetts[6]
MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES
Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Assoc.; Chicago Society of Artists; Commission for the Encouragement of Local Art, Chicago (board 1923-1924); Independent Society of Artists, Chicago; Palette & Chisel Club (president 1920-1921[7])
HONORS
1908 Associate, Glasgow School of Art
1920 Gold Medal, Palette & Chisel Club
1924 Edward B. Butler Chicago Public Schools Purchase Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago & Vicinity[8]
JURIES SERVED
Chicago Society of Artists annual 1924
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Chicago Society of Artists annual 1924
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Independent Society of Artists, Chicago 1917, 1918
New York Art Center
Palette & Chisel Club annual 1918[9]
Pennsylvania Academyof the Fine Arts, American Watercolors 1924
Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art 1908, 1909
Saugatuck Summer School of Painting1920
ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
INTERESTING NOTES
He was also a wood block artist.
[1]“David L. Adam, An Appreciation And A Proxied Interview,” The Palette & Chisel, Vol. 1, No. 4, May 1924, p.3.
[2]“David L. Adam,” in “News of the Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 6/24/1924. “David L. Adam,” The Palette & Chisel, Vol. 1, No. 6, September 1924, p.3.
[3]His Old Ferry Landing, was illustrated in The Palette & Chisel, Vol. 1, No. 2, March 1924, p.5.
[4]“Palette & Chisel Club,” in “News Of The Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 4/20/1920, p.12.
[5]“Palette and Chisel Club,” in “News Of The Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 10/5/1920, p.11.
[6]“Of Timely Interest,” in “News Of The Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 10/4/1921, p.11.
[7]“Art,” Chicago Tribune, 1/18/1920, p.F6.
[8]The prize was noted in Palette & Chisel, Vol. 1, No. 2, March 1924.
[9]His An Old Man, was illustrated in Evelyn Marie Stuart, “Annual Exhibition - Palette & Chisel Club,” Fine Arts Journal, Vol. 36, April 1918, p.8.