Born in Dundee, Scotland on March 19, 1877. P.S. Adamson adopted the pseudonym Penrhyn Stanlaws. After emigrating from Scotland to the U.S. in 1901, he used his artistic talent to pay for four years... Read full biography
Born in Dundee, Scotland on March 19, 1877. P.S. Adamson adopted the pseudonym Penrhyn Stanlaws. After emigrating from Scotland to the U.S. in 1901, he used his artistic talent to pay for four years at Princeton University. He then studied in Paris for three years at Académie Julian under Constant... Read full biography
Born in Dundee, Scotland on March 19, 1877. P.S. Adamson adopted the pseudonym Penrhyn Stanlaws. After emigrating from Scotland to the U.S. in 1901, he used his artistic talent to pay for four years at Princeton University. He then studied in Paris for three years at Académie Julian under Constant and Laurens. Returning to the U.S. in 1908, he established a studio in NYC where his illustrations of "Stanlaws' Girls" soon became as popular as those by Gibson and Flagg in such national magazines... Read full biography
Born in Dundee, Scotland on March 19, 1877. P.S. Adamson adopted the pseudonym Penrhyn Stanlaws. After emigrating from Scotland to the U.S. in 1901, he used his artistic talent to pay for four years at Princeton University. He then studied in Paris for three years at Académie Julian under Constant and Laurens. Returning to the U.S. in 1908, he established a studio in NYC where his illustrations of "Stanlaws' Girls" soon became as popular as those by Gibson and Flagg in such national magazines as Saturday Evening Post and Town and Country. Highly successful, he built the Hotel des Artistes in NYC, which was at that time the largest studio building in the country. In the early 1940s he relocated to Los Angeles where he worked as a dramatist... Read full biography
Born in Dundee, Scotland on March 19, 1877. P.S. Adamson adopted the pseudonym Penrhyn Stanlaws. After emigrating from Scotland to the U.S. in 1901, he used his artistic talent to pay for four years at Princeton University. He then studied in Paris for three years at Académie Julian under Constant and Laurens. Returning to the U.S. in 1908, he established a studio in NYC where his illustrations of "Stanlaws' Girls" soon became as popular as those by Gibson and Flagg in such national magazines as Saturday Evening Post and Town and Country. Highly successful, he built the Hotel des Artistes in NYC, which was at that time the largest studio building in the country. In the early 1940s he relocated to Los Angeles where he worked as a dramatist and motion-picture director. A fire in his studio took his life in Los Angeles on May 18, 1957. Exhibition: . Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (16)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Covers of the Saturday Evening Post Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration
1995
Cohn, Jan
298 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984
Reed, Walt and Roger
355 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Posters of the Turn of the Century
1975
Keay, Carolyn
115 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One