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Ethel Evans
Ethel Evans (1866-1929), was a successful American painter. She went from a small town in Nebraska to a widely traveled and educated impressionist artist living in New York by the time of her death. Evans was born in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa to her mother and father Mary Anne and William Davis Evans. She was the fourth youngest in a group of 12 siblings[1]. She stayed in the American midwest until traveling to Paris in 1895, where she both studied and exhibited art. While living in the United States she taught art in Omaha public schools. In 1910 she had a near death experience when a gas explosion occurred underneath the streetcar she was riding in. Later in 1917-1928 she travelled extensively with her older sister Elizabeth Evans Lindsey to locations including Cuba, Florida, Puerto Rico, and Columbia. She died in 1929 in New York City[2].
Career
Early in her career Evans was student at the Art Students League of New York and at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, later named Moore College of Art. In 1891 Ethel Evans exhibited with one of Nebraska's earliest art organizations, the Western Art Association, in 1891[3]. She also exhibited for the Art Club in Lincoln Nebraska at the same time. From 1892 to 1895, Ethel was the Omaha Public School Supervisor of Drawing. She wrote for the Omaha Daily Bee on several instances, and even designed the 1895 May Day's column logo, which had been turned over to women editors for the holiday[4][5].
Evans was in Paris for instruction from 1895-1898, where she lived at the address Bara rue II[6]. Her teachers included both Raphael Collin and Augustus Koopman[7]. While in Paris she exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1897. After coming back from Paris she became Teacher of Mechanical Drawing in Omaha, Nebraska. Her memberships included the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors and the Pen and Brush Club of New York[8].
References
- ^ "Ethel Evans (1866-1929) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree". www.wikitree.com. 1866-03-04. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
- ^ "Ethel Evans - Biography". www.askart.com. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
- ^ "western art assoc, 1891 Omaha". Omaha Daily Bee. 1891-12-13. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- ^ Katz, Wendy Jean, ed. (2018). The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898-1899: art, anthropology, and popular culture at the fin de siècle. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-4962-0436-3.
- ^ "Trans-Mississippi International Exposition". trans-mississippi.unl.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
- ^ Gerdts, William H. (1990). Art across America: two centuries of regional painting 1710-1920. New York: Abbeville press. ISBN 978-1-55859-033-5.
- ^ Fink, Lois Marie (1990). American art at the nineteenth-century Paris salons (1. publ ed.). Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Inst. [u.a.] ISBN 978-0-521-38499-5.
- ^ Petteys, Chris (1985). Dictionary of women artists: an international dictionary of women artists born before 1900. Boston, Mass: G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8456-9.