De Scott Evans

De Scott Evans studied at Miami University. Employment is recorded with University of Mount Union. Works named in the authority record are Try One. Work by De Scott Evans is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Brandywine Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Birmingham Museum of Art.

• Name — De Scott Evans • Birth Name — David Scott Evans • Born — 28 March 1847 • Birthplace — Boston, Indiana, United States • Died — 4 July 1898 • Place of death — Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada • Spouse — Alice Josephine Burk (1872–1898; his death) 3 children • Occupation — Artist

David Scott Evans was born in Boston, Indiana to David S. and Nancy A. (Davenport) Evans. His father was a physician. He attended Miami University's preparatory school in the 1860s, studying with professor Adrian Beaugureau at Miami and later in Cincinnati. Evans married Alice Josephine Burk in 1872. They had two biological daughters, Mabel and Blanche, and an adopted daughter, Laura. In 1873, he became head of the art department at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, and taught there until 1875. Evans then lived in Paris from 1877 to 1878, where he studied with Adolphe William Bouguereau. He then taught from 1882 to 1887 at the Cleveland Academy of Art, and then moved to New York City in 1887, at the age of forty. Evans and his three daughters were among 562 people who were killed on July 4, 1898, when the La Bourgogne, bound for Le Havre, collided with a sailing ship and sank in the North Atlantic. His wife was not on board and later remarried. There is a cenotaph for Evans and his daughters in the Oxford Cemetery in Oxford, Ohio.

• Illustration — Taxidermist (1881) • Illustration — Grandfathers Clock (1881) • Illustration — Winter Evening in Lawnfield (c.1881–87) • Illustration — The Connoisseur (1887) • Illustration — Woman Picking Flowers (1887) • Illustration — Arranging Pink Roses (1891) • Illustration — The Tack Room (date unknown) • Illustration — Woman Playing a Mandoliln (date unknown) • Illustration — Scene on the Island of Jamaica (date unknown)

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