David Adamson
1951
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BiographyDavid Adamson, born in England, studied fine art and printmaking at Newcastle University and the Slade school in London. He worked for Petersburg Press as a lithographer for such artists as David Hockney, Henry Moore, Claes Oldenburg, and James Rosenquist, then as a Fulbright Fellow at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in New Mexico. After teaching in England for a period, he returned to the United States in 1978 when he was invited to set up a printmaking workshop in Richmond Virginia, and founded the David Adamson Galleryand Adamson Editions, a fine art Lithography studio in Washington, DC. In the early-1980s, he became involved in computer programming and printing, and founded the computer graphics program at the Corcoran School of Art and Design. In 1993 he launched an all-digital atelier devoted to fine art and photographic printing in Washington, DC.