| Born in Dundee, Scotland on March 19, 1877. Adamson adopted the pseudonym Penrhyn Stanlaws. After emigrating from Scotland to the U.S. in 1901, he used his artistic talent to pay for four years at Princeton University. He then studied in Paris for three years at Académie Julian under Constant and Laurens. Returning to the U.S. in 1908, he established a studio in NYC where his illustrations of “Stanlaws’ Girls” soon became as popular as those by Gibson and Flagg in such national magazines as (showing 500 of 971 characters). |
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