Kenneth Miller Adams (1897 – 1966) was an American artist.
[1] In 1937 he was commissioned by the Section of Painting and Sculpture to create murals for the U.S. post offices in Goodland, Kansas,[2] and Deming, New Mexico.
[3] In 1938, he moved to Albuquerque when he was awarded a Carnegie Corporation grant as the first artist-in-residence at the University of New Mexico.
[5] He was commissioned by James F. Zimmerman, president of the university, to create a mural for the university library called The Three Peoples, to include the Hispanic, Native American and non-indigenous citizens.
Some have considered the final panel of the four as racist because of placement of the Hispanic and Native American figures outside of the central figure in the final mural, but they are all included.