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He moved to Washington, D.C., in 1995 and began painting in 1998.

Kevin grew up in Oxford, Maryland, and studied painting at the American Institute in Southern France and the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Exhibitions were held at the parks and at the Department of the Interior Museum in D.C. For the 75th Anniversary of Shenandoah National Park, the Park Trust commissioned a limited edition giclée print of Kevin’s iconic “Old Rag and the Piedmont,” and he was named Artist in Residence at the Park in 2017.

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J.S. Although the floor in the main room was in such poor shape that it had to be replaced for safety reasons, in renovating the Gallery, the owners have preserved the historic elements and repaired the major structural elements and systems in the hopes that it will continue to serve as mercantile building well into the next century.

Gay Street Gallery Exhibition

Exhibition featuring the work of J.S.

Herbert, Kevin H. Adams, and Aster da Fonseca
Gay Street Gallery
337 Gay Street
Washington VA 22747
540-227-5100
The gallery is open Wednesday-Monday 10a-5p or by appointment 540-522-9688.
He was awarded first place in the Bethesda Painting Awards in 2007 and received an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2001. What was the pervasive ideology of those “children of the depression” which once lived in this house and worked in this workshop? The two-by-six layout of the streets is essentially unchanged since the Revolutionary War.

The Gallery building is believed to be one of the oldest, continually operated mercantile buildings in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He resides in Baltimore Maryland with his wife and children.

Gay Street Gallery presents the work of select, award-winning artists from Virginia and around the country. With a focus on representational landscape and figurative paintings, the Gallery also shows sculpture and other three-dimensional art, and also hosts exhibitions of contemporary work in various media.

Located in picturesque Washington, Virginia, Gay Street Gallery sits centrally within two blocks of restaurants, shops, entertainment and lodging.

His work is in the collection of the Department of Defense. Following his military service, at the invitation of the Soviet government in 1989, Kevin accompanied a traveling exhibition of his work across the Soviet Union. The main structure was constructed circa 1836 by James B. Jones, and it was known as Jones’s Store for most of its history. The basement studio in which all of these paintings have been made is in a working class neighborhood near the recently closed Bethlehem Steel Plant in Sparrows Point Maryland.

My paintings are formalist constructions but are not necessarily arranged. An adjacent courtyard makes the perfect place for a picnic lunch, and in the Fall, our outdoor fireplace is a good spot to warm hands!
The Town of Washington is home to the Michelin 3-starred The Inn at Little Washington; the highly rated Gay Street Inn, the internationally acclaimed RH Ballard’s Shop, and numerous other establishments.

(The current Gallery is available for use by local non-profits and other groups needing a place to meet.)

A rear room and second floor addition were added in approximately 1850, and by 1910 a one-story addition, which for years provided parking space for the local school bus, had been added to the south. Herbert, a ceramicist based in Northern Virginia, is a member of multiple associations of artists, including the Studio Gallery in Washington, D.C.

and the Art League Gallery in Alexandria. Even when the objects are clearly defined their meanings may be lost to our current generation.

Kevin H. Adams

Gallery Co-Founder and Resident Artist Kevin H. Adams passed away on October 17, 2023, after having unexpectedly been diagnosed with untreatable brain cancer earlier that summer.

His husband, family and friends have proceeded with showing his remaining work in honor of Kevin’s extraordinary artistic legacy and in loving memory of him.

Kevin’s paintings have been exhibited across the country and around the world. His paintings were exhibited multiple times at both, his work was chosen for two exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as at other museums and galleries around the country.

The U.S.

Department of State, through its Arts in Embassies Program, selected a number of Kevin’s American landscapes to hang in embassies around the world. See the Contact page for resources to help plan your visit.

The historical record suggests that the Town of Washington was surveyed by a young George Washington in 1749, and it is the first town to take his name.

The U.S. Department of the Interior twice commissioned collections of Kevin’s work: For the 75th Anniversary of the Grand Canyon National Park, Kevin created a series of paintings of the inner gorge, and for the 85th Anniversary of Glacier National Park, he produced a series of paintings of the park’s back country. How did they treat materials and resources?