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Ethel Evans
American painter
Ethel Evans (1866–1929) was an American painter.
Evans was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. She stayed in the Midwest until traveling to Paris in 1895, where she both studied and exhibited art. In 1910 she had a near-death experience when a gas explosion occurred underneath the streetcar she was riding in. From 1917 to 1928, she travelled with her older sister, Elizabeth Evans Lindsey, to locations including Cuba, Florida, Puerto Rico, and Colombia. She died in 1929 in New York City.[1]
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, Evans exhibited with one of Nebraska's earliest art organizations, the Western Art Association.[2] 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 several times, and designed the 1895 May Day column logo, which had been turned over to women editors for the holiday.[3][4] While living in the United States, she taught art in Omaha public schools.
Evans was in Paris for instruction from 1895 to 1898, where she lived at the address Bara rue II.[5] Her teachers included Raphael Collin and Augustus Koopman [fr].[6] While in Paris, she exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1897. After coming back from Paris, she became Teacher of Mechanical Drawing in Omaha. Later, while traveling with her sister, she exhibited in the February 1914 American Women Art Association show at rue de Chevreuse.[7] Her memberships included the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors and the Pen and Brush Club of New York.[8]
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