New Mexico Under Snow

Kenneth Miller Adams

Quoted from Van Deren Coke's retrospective catalog of 1964: "...Adams has had a fruitful experience with lithography. On one of his visits to Taos in the late twenties B.J.O. Nordfeldt admired certain of Adams' drawings and suggested they would make fine lithographic prints. He gave Adams several zinc plates and some crayons that he was not going to use, With these Adams produced four lithographs: 'Albidia' (1930), 'Taos Indian Woman' (1930), 'Washerwoman' (1929) and 'New Mexico Village Under Snow' (1929). The Western Lithograph Company of Wichita, Kansas printed these."

In 1929 Adams and his wife Hilda were living in Taos in an apartment in the Harwood Foundation. His work begins to reflect the Spanish American culture of Northern New Mexico, as in this lithograph, possibly his first one.