Garth Evans (British-American, b. 1934)
Things, 2019
C-Print
Sight: 18 x 24 in. (overall)
Framed: 21 1/2 x 27 1/8 x 1 in.
Signed, dated and numbered at bottom
Garth Evans was born on 23 November 1934 in Stockport near Manchester. After national service with the RAF he attended Manchester Regional College of Art, and continued studying sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1957-60). From 1965-79 he taught at St Martin’s School of Art, before moving to the United States.
Evans has exhibited widely and his work is represented in major collections in the UK and internationally. He currently lives and works in North East Connecticut and teaches in New York, where he is Head of Sculpture at the New York Studio School. (Bio from the Henry Moore Foundation)
Public collections include:
Arts Council of Great Britain
Belfast City Art Gallery, Northern Ireland
C.T. Bowring & Co., Ltd., London
British Museum, London
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Union Gas
City Art Gallery, Bristol, England
Contemporary Art Society, London
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
The Henry Moore Foundation, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Leicestershire Education Authority, Leicestershire, England
Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, England
Merthyr Tydfil Art Gallery, Wales
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Museum of Modern Art, Brazil
Poole Technical College, Dorset, England
Portsmouth City Art Gallery, England
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Rugby Borough Council, England
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Welsh Arts Council
West Riding of Yorkshire Education Committee, Yorkshire, England
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT