MARK ADAMS (1925-2006) Untitled (View from Mark Adam's Firehouse at...

PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT SCRAP, A CREATIVE REUSE CENTER AND ARTS EDUCATION NONPROFIT FOUNDED IN 1976 IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
MARK ADAMS (1925-2006)
Untitled (View from Mark Adam's Firehouse at 3816 22nd Street), 1965

signed and dated 'Mark Adams '65' (lower right)
acrylic on Masonite

20 x 24 in.
50.8 x 61 cm.
Provenance
Fundraiser for the Community Music Center, San Francisco (donated by the artist)
Collection of Ruth Asawa and Albert Lanier, San Francisco (acquired directly from the above in circa 1965)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Built in 1909, Engine Company No. 44, the firehouse from which the view pictured in the present lot is seen, was converted by Mark Adams and his wife printmaker Beth Van Hoesen into a home and studio designed by the noted architect Albert Lanier, husband of celebrated artist Ruth Asawa. Ruth and Albert regularly joined the weekly drawing sessions hosted by Mark and Beth in the light-filled studio where their circle of friends, which included fellow artists Wayne Thiebaud, William Theophilus Brown and Paul Wonner, among others, took turns modeling.