# Charles Partridge Adams artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1858-01-12
- Death date: 1942-10-15
- Nationality: American
- Movements: American landscape painting, Rocky Mountain school
- Common media: oil painting

## About Charles Partridge Adams

Charles Partridge Adams (1858–1942) was an American landscape painter born in Franklin, Massachusetts, who became one of Colorado’s most recognized landscape artists. Largely self-taught, Adams developed his practice by studying nature directly rather than through formal academic training. He is best known for sweeping depictions of the Colorado Rockies, but his body of work also includes landscapes of California, the Pacific Northwest, other Rocky Mountain states, Canada, and a smaller number of scenes from Louisiana, the East Coast, and Europe. Adams spent his later years in Pasadena, California, where he died in 1942. His paintings are held in regional museum collections and appear regularly at auction.

## Common works and media

Adams worked primarily in oil on canvas. His most common subjects are panoramic mountain landscapes, alpine vistas, forested valleys, and river scenes, especially of the Colorado Rockies and, later, California scenery. Collectors may also encounter smaller oil studies, watercolor sketches, and paintings of Pacific Northwest or Canadian landscapes. Works range from intimate cabinet-sized panels to large exhibition-scale canvases.

## Market and appraisal context

Adams’s paintings come to auction primarily under American art and Western American art categories. With over 270 recorded auction appearances, his work has a measurable market history. Key factors affecting appraisal include the specific subject (Colorado mountain scenes are most sought after), medium and scale, provenance clarity, and condition. Because no comprehensive catalogue raisonné was identified in available reference sources, attribution should be supported by provenance documentation or expert opinion before appraisal.

## Appraisily data basis

This Appraisily artist page combines verified identity data from Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and RKD with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots from the Invaluable database when those records are available.

## Sources

- RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/103254
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5081517
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500141577
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/264727610/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93039145
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Partridge_Adams