Merlyn Oliver Evans
Merlyn Oliver Evans
1910 - 1973
b. 1910 in Cardiff, Wales; d. 1973.
Painter of Surrealist and abstract works in oil and tempera; instructor of etching at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.
Merlyn Oliver Evans studied at Glasgow School of Art before winning a travelling scholarship that took him to Germany and Scandinavia. His first etchings were exhibited at the International Surrealist Exhibition held in London in 1936. In the late 1940s he began to make colour prints which incorporated a variety of combinations of etching, aquatint, engraving and drypoint. One-man shows at Leicester Galleries (1949, 1952, 1953), The Midland Art Gallery (1952), Durban City Art Gallery (1939). Evans was the subject of retrospective exhibitions in 1956 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and also in 1967 at the Art Institute, Chicago.
Painter of Surrealist and abstract works in oil and tempera; instructor of etching at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.
Merlyn Oliver Evans studied at Glasgow School of Art before winning a travelling scholarship that took him to Germany and Scandinavia. His first etchings were exhibited at the International Surrealist Exhibition held in London in 1936. In the late 1940s he began to make colour prints which incorporated a variety of combinations of etching, aquatint, engraving and drypoint. One-man shows at Leicester Galleries (1949, 1952, 1953), The Midland Art Gallery (1952), Durban City Art Gallery (1939). Evans was the subject of retrospective exhibitions in 1956 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and also in 1967 at the Art Institute, Chicago.