Bill is a member of the Copley Society of Art (Boston), a "Copley Artist", an artist member of the Cape Cod Art Association and a member of the Falmouth Artists Guild.

He has won many "Firsts", Bests" and "Honorable Mentions" in jury shows in New England and the middle-Atlantic states and won the Haney Medal of the School Art League of NYC.

He has exhibited in commercial art galleries in California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Virginia.  His work has been purchased by two Nobel Laureates, a prominent Boston businessman, a university president, an opera conductor, many professional people, and by people from all walks of life.

He has exhibited at the Woods Hole Gallery, the Cataumet Arts Center, Falmouth Framing & Art, the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville, Vermont, the Cape Cod Art Association in Barnstable, MA, the Copley Society of Art, the Ferguson Galleries in Hartford, CT and Fisher Island in NY.

For many years he was the Art Critic for the Enterprise Newspapers on Cape Cod and is a popular art history lecturer. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.

"Adelman's medium is oil or acrylic painted in a meticulous style, frequently requiring months of careful application.  I am reminded of the technical qualities of the French surrealist painter Rene Magritte. The Adelman paintings are not blatantly surrealistic as are Magritte's, but there is, nevertheless, a subtle intensity in the consistently hard edge style that conveys a haunting, dreamlike quality."

by Lawrence N. Jensen, AWS
Excerpt from "Woods Hole Gallery Shows Adelman's Recent Works"

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Jean Mayo Adelman paints in plein air the many places she and her husband Bill visit on art trips. Paintings of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont make up one group of her works. Scenes of Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado comprise another theme group. And another group of paintings are of Scotland and the Hebrides.

Jean Mayo Adelman signs her paintings “Jeana.” She is a painter in several media. She is best known for her acrylics, watercolors, and pastels. In 2004 she won the “Best in Show Award” for her expressionist painting of an Arizona vista, and in 2005 juror Paul Resika awarded her Best in Show for her oil “Storm Warning.” Sam Barber awarded her the Best Oil or Acrylic Prize for her semi-abstract acrylic of Redbrook Harbor in Bourne on Cape Cod.

She has been President of the Falmouth Artists’ Guild twice, and for many years was an active board member. She founded the Falmouth Arts Alive Festival and was Chair of the festival for two years. She studied painting with Claude Croney, Bill Regan, Hillary Osborn, Diana Lee, and Edith Bruce, and drawing with Clifford Stubbs.

She is a long time member of the Woods Hole Woman’s Club and has served as its President. For many years she was on the Board of the Woods Hole Children’s School of Science. She has been active in many community theater groups. In Maryland, she performed with Cedar Lane Stage and was its President for several years. She has been active in the Falmouth Theater Guild and the Woods Hole Theater Company as actor, assistant director and board member. Recent performances were in Thornton Wilder’s “Infancy” and James Thurber’s “Thurber Carnival.”
Before painting became her main endeavor, she was a Navy WAVE, a dietician in several hospitals, and a mother of three.

A native Vermonter and a graduate of the University of Vermont, she had at one time her own television show, demonstrating healthful recipes for the American Red Cross. She remains active in the arts and is an active plein air painter whenever the weather permits.

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