Peter Seitz Adams

Who is Peter Seitz Adams?

Peter Seitz Adams is an American artist known for his landscape and figurative paintings. He is the longest serving President of the California Art Club and a member of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena.

Adams has been a professional artist since the late 1970s. He has painted extensively abroad, hiking and painting his way across Asia on two expeditions in the 1980s, where he visited China, India, Pakistan, Tibet and Bhutan. Disguised as a Mujahideen, in 1987 he painted in Afghanistan during Russia’s long involvement there and then lectured on his experiences when he went back to the United States. Adams is also a writer and editor who has written extensively for the California Art Club newsletter as well as a number of the organizations exhibition catalogs. His high-keyed works, which includes plein-air landscapes, still lifes and imaginative figurative paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in private galleries and museums in California and the Western United States.