Ruth Tannenbaum (now Rudi Dundas) took the notes below at a talk given by Mark Adams and held at the San Francisco Tapestry Workshop.
Mark Adams might be best known for his sensitive watercolors, but he also had a long and successful career as a tapestry designer. He studied with Jean Lurcat in France and his tapestries were woven at the commercial tapestry workshops in Aubusson.
As a result of the exhibition Five Centuries of Tapestry, curated by Anna Gray Bennett and hosted by the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Adams met and began working with Jean Pierre Larochette, who had been hired to lead a tapestry weaving demonstration at the museum during the show. Students from the San Francisco State University textile program were taught to weave and executed Adams’ tapestry, California Poppies.
