Charles G Beale ADAMS
Primarily a St Ives artist, Beale Adams exhibited at the RCPS from 1897, and three paintings - Lelant Estuary, Hayle River and Morning - at the Whitechapel Exhibition in 1902. From 1898 he also exhibited at St Ives Show Days. He is recorded as living at Porthia from 1898, and Primrose Cottage, St Ives, until 1911 when he left the area to live in Ilfracombe Devon. Nevertheless, he returned upon occasion, exhibiting at Show Days from 1919-1924 and at the NAG-Revival exhibition (following WWI) in September of 1920. He displayed two of his ‘excellent sea paintings’, Last of the Light and Wild Weather, at the 1924 Show Day in St Ives, ‘works typical of this well known artist.’ [reviewer] By 1926 he was living again at St Ives at Lyonesse, Talland Road, where he remained until 1939 (Kelly’s).
media
Painter
works and access
Works include: - Lelant Estuary (1902); Hayle River (1902); Morning (1902); Last of the Light (1924); Wild Weather (1924)
exhibitions
RBA; RCPS; LEI; BIR; ROI
RCPS 1897 onwards
St Ives 1897, 1906, 1919, 1924 (2)
Whitechapel (3) 1902
NAG Revival Exhibition, September 1920
memberships
FUBA; RBA; STIAC (1898)
references
St Ives Times 14 Mar 1919, 12 Dec 1919, 20 Feb 1920, 5 Mar 1920, 19 Mar 1920, 3 Sep 1920, 21 Mar 1924
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn & West Cornwall
Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists
Kelly's Directory 1939;
Tovey (2008) Pioneers of St Ives Art
(2009) St Ives: Social History
Whitechapel Exhibition Catalogue (See Hardie pp61-64);
The Year’s Art