Mark Adams, Catalogue Raisonne of Tapestries

Mark Adams was born in Fort Plain, New York. He studied at the School of Fine Arts, and with Stanley William Hayter at the New York branch of Atelier 17. Adams developed an interest in the tapestry medium through visits to the Cloisters and other tapestry collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 1955 he apprenticed himself with French tapestry designer Jean Lurcat in Saint-Cere, France and subsequently studied at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs d'Aubusson, where he met master weavers Paul Avignon and his wife Marguerite, who over the next twenty years wove more than a hundred of his tapestry designs.