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Kenneth Evett

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Kenneth Warnock Evett (1913 - 2005) was active/lived in Colorado, Kansas.  Kenneth Evett is known for Mural, genre, figure and portrait painting.

Born Loveland, CO, 1913; died Ithaca, NY, May 28, 2005. Painter, specifically figure, portrait, mural. Studied at the Kirkland School of Art, Denver, CO. Received an MFA in painting from Colorado College in 1939 and studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center under Boardman Robinson, George Biddle, and Henry Varnum Poor.

He won commissions from the Works Progress Administration's federal section of fine arts to paint murals in several post offices in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska including Cowboys Driving Cattle in the Caldwell Post Office painted in 1941, Picnic in Kansas and Changing of the Horses for the Pony Express for the Horton Post Office in 1938-39.

He also was the winner of a national juried competition to create three murals for the rotunda of the Nebraska State Capitol. Taught at Cornell University from 1948-1979. During 1972-1977, he contributed essays on art & exhibits to the New Republic magazine.

SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
AskArt, www.askart.com, accessed Sept. 2, 2005; Cornell University News Services, June 3, 2005, http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June05/Evett.obit.html, accessed Sept. 25, 2005; Bruner, Ronald Irwin. New Deal Art Workers in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. Thesis. University of Denver, 1979.; Wayne, Cynthis, and Jo Ann Wimer. Elements of Nature: Watercolors by Kenneth Evett (Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 1967); Works by Kenneth Evett (Ithaca, NY: White Museum of Art, 1969)

This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas.   ...  [Displaying 1817 of 3239 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Kenneth Evett

   Publications  Book References:  25
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Kenneth Evett
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Southwest Art War and Peace June 1999 May, Stephen Yes
25 Book References for Kenneth Evett
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Puschendorf, L. Robert Nebraska's Post Office Murals: Born of the Depression, Fostered by the New Deal 112 Yes
2006 Craig, Susan (Compiler) Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945 0 No
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1990 Luebke, Frederick C., Editor, H. Keith Sawyers, Dale Gibbes, Jon Nelson, Norman Geske The Nebraska State Capitol: A Harmony of the Arts 119 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 North Carolina Museum of Art Two Hundred Years of Visual Arts in North Carolina
(Exhibition catalog)		 146 No
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1972 Amon Carter Museum Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972 600 No
1972 Tomko, George Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum 237 Yes
1971 Shalkop, Robert L A Show of Color 100 Years of Painting/Pike's Peak Region
(Exhibition catalog)		 94 No
1947 University of Arizona University of Arizona Collection of American Art 106 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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