Mark ADAMS

Mark Adams made his first tapestry cartoons in 1952 (a multi-talented artist he also painted murals and designed stain-glass windows…). He arrived in France in 1955, working with Lurçat at Tours Saint-Laurent and also at the Ecole Nationale d’Art Décoratif in Aubusson. One of the very few American peintres-cartonniers, he participated in the Biennales de Lausanne, and produced over a hundred cartoons most of which were woven in Aubusson, notably by Paul Avignon.

Recognised above all for his tapestry designs featuring wing motifs, Mark Adams sought inspiration in many and varied fields. Our “tapestry is related to the “Fire fountain” tapestry, and is another design that focuses on the display pattern from the light and sparks of a fireworks display against the dark sky (Multi-authored, Mark Adams, catalogue raisonné of tapestries, Stanford University Press, 2012, n°033, p.91).

Bibliography :
Multi-authored, Mark Adams, catalogue raisonné of tapestries, Stanford University Press, 2012