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Charles Partridge Adams was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, on January 12, 1858. He moved to the West at the age of eighteen, settling in Denver, Colorado. Although essentially self-taught, Adams studied briefly with Helen Chain, a local artist, and worked as an engraver in the bookstore of Chain and Hardy.
Adams kept a summer studio in Estes Park near Longs Peak, Colorado, and from there painted scenes of the Rockies and the San Juan and San Miguel Mountains, as well as the Tetons and Yellowstone Park in Wyoming, and the New Mexico desert. By the mid-1880s, he had established a reputation as one of Colorado's finest landscape painters. He won a gold medal in the National Mining and Industrial Exposition held in Denver in 1882 and was a charter member of the Denver Artists Club, founded in 1893.
Returning to the United States from a trip to Europe in 1916, Adams settled in Southern California, where he remained for the rest of his life. He painted famous California landmarks, including frequent studies of brilliant sunsets over the Sierra Mountains. After 1921, however, he maintained a studio in Laguna Beach and concentrated on marine subjects.
Adams left over 800 paintings and many sketches at the time of his death, in Pasadena, California, in 1942. His work is represented in numerous collections, including the Denver Art Museum, the Kansas City Art Association, the San Diego Women's Club, and the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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