ADAMS, GLENN

Glenn began painting in 1958, at the age of 30 after obtaining his Ph.D. (’53) at McGill University in Science and Engineering.

He took art classes in Montreal from Patrick Landsley, Guy Viau, Moe Reinblatt and others. In 1960 he visited Alex Colville in his studio and began correspondence with him about his own artworks and also took art workshops at Mount Allison University with L.P. Harris & Jacques de Tonnancour. During the 1962-63 academic year at Mount Allison continued his artistic development by taking second and third year Fine Arts courses from Harris, Colville and Helen Dowe.

By 1966, Glen had purchased his home and land in nearby Sackville, New Brunswick where he set up his studio and spent a year painting full-time.

Glenn has had a variety of both group and one-man exhibitions over the year across North America including: Banfer Gallery (New York), Galerie Agnes Lefort (Montreal), Owens Art Gallery (Sackville, NB), Roberts Gallery (Toronto), New Brunswick Museum (Saint John, NB), at the Universities of Guelph & Waterloo, and many others.

His works are currently held in private collections in New York, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, Winnipeg, Fredericton, Moncton, Saint John, and Sackville. Public collections include the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, C-I-L, City of Moncton, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (Guelph), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, New Brunswick Art Bank, New Brunswick Museum, UNB Art Centre, and Owens Art Gallery at Mount Allison University.

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