WORK

TECHNIQUE

After attending Edgewood High School, Adan went to San Antonio College on a scholarship, majoring in Art.

He worked with Acrylics until the end of the 80`s, then changed to oil. Even though he mostly worked on canvas, he also used wooden boards and paper. While he was using classical pencils for drawings in the 80`s, he switched to pastel colours and dark handmade paper in the 90`s. His pastel drawings were mostly intended as preliminary sketches, later developed into Oil on canvas.

This might be the first trial ever to provide a comprehensive overview of Adan's work over the last 4 decades. During our research, we found that many private collectors also own paintings that have never been seen before.

Even the BLOOD IN BLOOD OUT collection was completed by an artwork called "Juanito On His Yonka", which was given to us by collector Ruby Payne.

COLLECTION

We calculated the number of works Adan produced over the years and found that he painted approximately 620 paintings and created about 850 drawings. This is, of course, just a statistical figure. Though it illustrates that the number of works on our website represents only a small selection – roughly one-fifth of paintings (20%) and one-tenth of drawings (10%) of his total output.

According to Spectrum News and Jose Arredondo`s report this was Adan`s last painting. He found the strength to sign it during his last days. He gave the painting to his sister Gloria Hernandez and his brother in law Daniel Trevino.

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