BORN: 1883 Glasgow, Scotland

DIED: June 20, 1924 Chicagoii

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)iii

c.1919 American Expeditionary Forces, Europe, engineer corpsiv

1920 Texasv

1921 Provincetown, Massachusettsvi

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 1920-1921vii)

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 & Vicinityviii

JURIES SERVED

Chicago Society of Artists annual 1924

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Independent Society of Artists, Chicago 1917, 1918

New York Art Center

Palette & Chisel Club annual 1918ix

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, American Watercolors 1924

Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art 1908, 1909

Saugatuck Summer School of Painting 1920

ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

INTERESTING NOTES

He was also a wood block artist.

i“David L. Adam, An Appreciation And A Proxied Interview,” The Palette & Chisel, Vol. 1, No. 4, May 1924, p.3.

ii“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.

iiiHis Old Ferry Landing, was illustrated in The Palette & Chisel, Vol. 1, No. 2, March 1924, p.5.

iv“Palette & Chisel Club,” in “News Of The Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 4/20/1920, p.12.

v“Palette and Chisel Club,” in “News Of The Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 10/5/1920, p.11.

vi“Of Timely Interest,” in “News Of The Art World,” supplement, Chicago Evening Post, 10/4/1921, p.11.

vii“Art,” Chicago Tribune, 1/18/1920, p.F6.

viiiThe prize was noted in Palette & Chisel, Vol. 1, No. 2, March 1924.

ixHis An Old Man, was illustrated in Evelyn Marie Stuart, “Annual Exhibition - Palette & Chisel Club,” Fine Arts Journal, Vol. 36, April 1918, p.8.