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Primrose Adams
Born1926
Masset,Haida Gwaii
DiedJanuary 2020 (aged 93–94)
NationalityCanadian First Nations
Known forhats and baskets
AwardsBritish Columbia Creative Lifetime Achievement Award for First Nations' Art

Primrose Adams(1926 – January 2020) was a CanadianFirst Nationsartist and member of the Raven Clan from theHaidanation.[1][2]She wove hats and baskets in the Haida method and is most notable for her spruce root basketry, which involves working in the traditional manner of collecting and dyeing her own spruce root.[3][4]Adams died in January 2020.[5]

Personal life and family

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As the granddaughter of celebrated Haida artistsCharles Edenshaw[6](1839–1920) andIsabella Edenshaw(1842–1926)[7]and the daughter of Haida artistsFlorence Davidsonand Robert Davidson, Adams comes from a family of distinguished Haida artists.[3]After marrying her husband, Victor, Adams learned the art of basket-weaving from her mother-in-law, Haida artist Selina Peratrovich (1890–1984), starting in 1977.[8][3][9]Adams' daughter, Isabel Rorick (born 1955) is also an acclaimed weaver,[10]carrying on a family tradition now spanning five generations.[11]

Career and achievements

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Miniature spruce root basket by Primrose Adams showing her characteristic dark inner ring signature

Adams' work resides in several public collections, including theField MuseuminChicago,theMuseum of Anthropology at UBCin Vancouver,[3][12]theDouglas Reynolds Galleryin Vancouver, British Columbia,[13]and the Lattimer Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia.[14]In 1981 Adams wove a hat for her nephew, distinguished Haida artistRobert Davidson.Davidson honored Adams in return in his diptychThe Seven Ravens,which depicted ravens representing his seven aunts, including Adams.[15]Adam was acknowledged by Davidson again in hisFifty Years of Haida Weaving: The Robert Davidson Collectionexhibition in 2009.[16]

Adams was included in Sharon J. Busby's 2003Spruce-Root Baskets of the Haida and Tlingit,a nonfiction book about Haida and Tlingit traditional craft.[17]In 2005, Adams featured in theChanging Hands: Art Without Reservation 2exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, New York.[15]2006 found Adams' work presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery'sRaven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Artexhibition.[18]

The 2010/2011 exhibitionSigned Without Signature: Works by Charles and Isabella Edenshawat the UBC Museum of Anthropology attested to the artistic strength of Adams' ancestors, and she and three other matrilineal descendants of the Edenshaws attended its opening.[19]

In 2011 Adams was awarded the British Columbia Creative Lifetime Achievement Award for First Nations' Art.[20]In 2017, she is set to be featured in theXi xanya dzamexhibition at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, which will display works by recipients of the British Columbia Creative Lifetime Achievement Award for First Nations' Art from 2007 to 2016.[21]

References

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  1. ^"Coastal Peoples Fine Arts Gallery - Primrose Adams".Coastalpeoples.com.Retrieved30 May2016.
  2. ^"Primrose Adams".Douglas Reynolds Gallery.Retrieved10 March2017.
  3. ^abcd"Adams, Primrose (1926- )".Museum of Anthropology at UBC.Retrieved10 March2017.
  4. ^"Primrose Adams / Alcheringa Gallery - Contemporary Aboriginal Art".Alcheringa-gallery.com.Retrieved30 May2016.
  5. ^Lattimer Gallery: Primrose Adams
  6. ^"Primrose Adams Bio".Stonington Gallery.Archived fromthe originalon 12 March 2017.Retrieved11 March2017.
  7. ^"Edenshaw, Isabella".Canadian Women Artists History Initiative.Retrieved11 March2017.
  8. ^"Collection Online | Museum of Anthropology at UBC".collection-online.moa.ubc.ca.Retrieved18 March2017.
  9. ^"PERATROVICH, Selina".Canadian Women Artists History Initiative.Retrieved11 March2017.
  10. ^"Isabel Rorick (1955- ), Haida artist biography and portfolio".Spirit Wrestler Gallery.Retrieved18 March2017.
  11. ^"Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge | McGill-Queen's University Press".www.mqup.ca.Retrieved18 March2017.
  12. ^McFadden, David Revere; Taubman, Ellen Napiura (2005).Contemporary Native North American art from the West, Northwest & Pacific.New York: Museum of Arts & Design.ISBN1890385115.
  13. ^"Primrose Adams | Northwest Coast Native Art | Douglas Reynolds Gallery".
  14. ^"Primrose Adams – Lattimer Gallery".www.lattimergallery.com.Retrieved18 March2017.
  15. ^ab"Primrose Adams (Haida) | Douglas Reynolds Gallery".www.douglasreynoldsgallery.com.Retrieved18 March2017.
  16. ^"Fifty years of Haida weaving: | Northern BC's Only Independent Regional MagazineNorthword Magazine".northword.ca.Retrieved18 March2017.
  17. ^"Spruce root basketry of the Haida and Tlingit / Sharon Busby; photography by Ron Reeder; illustrations by Margaret Davidson. - Version details".Trove.Retrieved18 March2017.
  18. ^"Vancouver Art Gallery to Present:Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art"(PDF).29 March 2006.
  19. ^Jennifer Webb (ed.)."Museum of Anthropology Annual Report 2010-2011"(PDF).Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia.
  20. ^British Columbia Achievement Foundation."2011 BC First Nations' Art Awards Announced".Newswire.ca.Retrieved30 May2016.
  21. ^"Visit this Gallery for Authentic Aboriginal Canadian Art".Aboriginal Tourism BC.Retrieved18 March2017.

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