Daniel Adel (born 1962) has worked as a portraitist, illustrator and fine artist since 1984. His work has appeared in ''

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'', '' Vanity Fair'', and ''

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'', and on magazine covers including ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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'', for whom he painted two covers in 2004. His cover portrait of George W. Bush for the ''Time'' Person of the Year issue in 2004 is part of the collection of Washington, D.C.'s

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. His portrait of the former Speaker of the New York City Council,

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, hangs in New York's City Hall. He has been commissioned to paint the Editors-in-Chief of ''Time'', ''

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'', and ''Vanity Fair''. Adel has exhibited his work in New York City since completing his studies in

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at Dartmouth College. He has been represented by Arcadia Contemporary in New York City since 2001 and more recently by Avant Galleries, Samuel Owen Gallery and The Boston Art Group where he exhibits his new series of hyperrealist abstract works or "Hyperabstractions." These paintings feature gestural abstractions which are transformed into free-floating volumetric forms. In 2011 Oceania Cruise Lines acquired a series of eight of his major works. He has received awards from the

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, was featured in the biennial exhibition of the

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and was awarded three silver medals from the

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. In 2001 several of Adel's portraits appeared in the

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production of ''Ten Unknowns'' by

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, starring

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. Adel has painted commissioned portraits for Yale University, Dartmouth College, Union Pacific Railroad, Notre Dame, the College of William and Mary, the New York Stock Exchange as well as for numerous private clients. In 2014 he painted the portrait of fashion designer

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. He has been a featured speaker at the Corcoran Gallery,

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and the Rhode Island School of Design and has taught at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Student's League in New York City. In addition to portraits, the artist also known for his paintings of crumpled paper or flowing fabric against in an undefined space.Art Out There
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in Provence, France.

References

Daniel Adel in AskArt.com
* Oceania Cruises, ''The Oceania Cruises Art Collection'', 2013, pp. 7–9, * Scieszka, Jon, illustrated by Daniel Adel, ''The Book that Jack Wrote'', New York, Viking, 1994, .

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adel, Daniel American illustrators 20th-century American painters 20th-century American male artists American male painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists Living people Dartmouth College alumni missing graduation year 1962 births