ADAMS PORTRAITS LTD
artistic portfolio of
ALASTAIR
ADAMS
PORTRAIT ARTIST
DR. RUTH SIMMONS for PRINCETON
Alastair was commissioned by Princeton to paint Dr Ruth Simmons, a former administrator and academic trailblazer who served as the first Ivy League African American President during her tenure at Brown University and is the current President at Prairie View, Texas.
Work began when he visited Houston pre covid where they talked about her journey from daughter of Texas sharecroppers to the highest reaches of academia. Ruth said she could not have imagined her current honour when arriving on Princeton’s campus 40 years ago:
“My decision to come to Princeton set my life on a path leading to immensely satisfying challenges, extraordinarily helpful and caring mentors, opportunities that framed my outlook and friendships so deep and enduring”
Ruth’s portrait will be added to Princeton’s permanent art collection honouring the accomplishments of ‘Princetonians’ who more fully reflect the diversity of Princeton’s history, its present and its aspirations for the future.
Work began when he visited Houston pre covid where they talked about her journey from daughter of Texas sharecroppers to the highest reaches of academia. Ruth said she could not have imagined her current honour when arriving on Princeton’s campus 40 years ago:
“My decision to come to Princeton set my life on a path leading to immensely satisfying challenges, extraordinarily helpful and caring mentors, opportunities that framed my outlook and friendships so deep and enduring”
Ruth’s portrait will be added to Princeton’s permanent art collection honouring the accomplishments of ‘Princetonians’ who more fully reflect the diversity of Princeton’s history, its present and its aspirations for the future.
YALE
Alastair has worked extensively with Yale University, Connecticut, USA, since 2015 and has painted a number of portraits both of living and posthumous subjects.
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