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1910 Cardiff - 1973. Known for: Painting; cubism, surrealism.
Merlyn Evans was a British painter, printmaker, and sculptor, who was born in Cardiff and grew up in Glasgow, where he studied at the School of Art from 1927 to 1930. During this period he was... Read full biography
Merlyn Evans was a British painter, printmaker, and sculptor, who was born in Cardiff and grew up in Glasgow, where he studied at the School of Art from 1927 to 1930. During this period he was already working as an abstract artist. A traveling scholarship then took him to France, Germany, Denmark,... Read full biography
Merlyn Evans was a British painter, printmaker, and sculptor, who was born in Cardiff and grew up in Glasgow, where he studied at the School of Art from 1927 to 1930. During this period he was already working as an abstract artist. A traveling scholarship then took him to France, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, after which Evans continued his studies at the Royal College of Art in London and from 1934 to 1936 in Paris, where he worked in Hayter's printmaking studio and met many leading artists,... Read full biography
Merlyn Evans was a British painter, printmaker, and sculptor, who was born in Cardiff and grew up in Glasgow, where he studied at the School of Art from 1927 to 1930. During this period he was already working as an abstract artist. A traveling scholarship then took him to France, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, after which Evans continued his studies at the Royal College of Art in London and from 1934 to 1936 in Paris, where he worked in Hayter's printmaking studio and met many leading artists, including Kandinsky and Mondrian. Merlyn's work at this time was influenced by both Cubism and Surrealism, although the most important models were Wyndham Lewis and the now almost forgotten Vorticist sculptor Lawrence Atkinson (1873-1931). Evans took... Read full biography
Merlyn Evans was a British painter, printmaker, and sculptor, who was born in Cardiff and grew up in Glasgow, where he studied at the School of Art from 1927 to 1930. During this period he was already working as an abstract artist. A traveling scholarship then took him to France, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, after which Evans continued his studies at the Royal College of Art in London and from 1934 to 1936 in Paris, where he worked in Hayter's printmaking studio and met many leading artists, including Kandinsky and Mondrian. Merlyn's work at this time was influenced by both Cubism and Surrealism, although the most important models were Wyndham Lewis and the now almost forgotten Vorticist sculptor Lawrence Atkinson (1873-1931). Evans took part in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London in 1936. In 1956 Whitechapel Gallery held a retrospective of his work... Read full biography