ROB EVANS
Rob Evans :
Four Decades of Work
Exhibition Tour Schedule
November 2, 2021 - June 30, 2022
Historic Hellam Preserve, Hellam, PA
Booking now open - available through 2025
Exhibition Details and Rental Information
Overview: This exhibit, which includes approximately 40 works, examines the development of Pennsylvania artist Rob Evans' artistic career over four decades. Beginning with early works from his college years at Syracuse University studying under Jerome Witkin, the exhibit follows his transition to a mature, personal and unique artistic voice as he eventually moved to his maternal grandparent's property on a ridge overlooking the Susquehanna River near Wrightsville, PA, a location where he would remain, raise a family and maintain a studio for his entire career. Most of the works in the exhibit portray this property and the surrounding Susquehanna Valley in some form - ranging from early drawings and paintings from his psychologically charged "Seven Rooms" series which examined the interior spaces in the farmhouse, to narrative works which metaphorically incorporate the local flora and fauna into large scale multi-paneled triptychs and altarpieces, to more direct plein air and observational studies of the landscape, clouds, weather and natural artifacts discovered on walks around the property.
Description:
Approximately 40 framed works in a variety of media including oil and acrylic paintings, watercolors, pastel and graphite drawings, mixed media works, lithographs, digital prints and sketchbooks. Works range in size from 90 inches wide to miniatures just 4 inches wide.
Exhibit can accommodate any size exhibition space - can be scaled down for smaller spaces or expanded for larger spaces by bringing in additional museum loans or works from private collections
Exhibit rental includes:
In-coming and out-going shipping and packing/unpacking
Assistance with exhibit design, layout and installation/take down
Wall labels and signage
Curator's gallery talk or lecture
Coordination with educational programs
Assistance with press and publicity
Exhibit loan fee:
Negotiable depending on size of space and duration of exhibit,
(assistance with securing sponsorship available).
Includes full curatorial services (assistance with layout/installation/take down)
as well asunpacking/packing and shipping to and from
Contributions are welcome to support this project
and to help underwrite exhibition costs!
Thank you so much for your support!
Selected Works from the Exhibit
Note: most of the works below are from the Roundtop Trust Collection or the artist's personal collection and are available for the entire tour. Works listed from private or museum collections can be arranged to add to the exhibit depending on their availability during certain time periods
The Patio
1984, mixed media on paper,
17 x 21 inches
Two Maples
1985, mixed media on paper,
14 x 15 inches
Peppers
1984, mixed media on paper,
21 x 25 inches
Private Collection
(promised gift , Reading Museum)
March Dig I
1985, graphite on paper,
21 x 25 inches
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March Dig II
1985, mixed media on paper,
21 x 25 inches
Gravity Air
1992, graphite on museum board,
40 x 60 inches
Power Lines I
1986, graphite on paper,
21 x 25 inches
Private Collection
Power Lines II
1987, mixed media on paper,
21 x 25 inches
Private Collection
Threshold
1988, mixed media on paper,
40 x 60 inches
Collection of National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Evaning Ritual
1989, oil on panels,
40 x 90 inches
Late Dinner
1988, stone lithograph,
8 x 12 inches
Late Dinner II
1989, mixed media over stone lithograph,
8 x 12 inches
Moth
1993, acrylic on panel,
24 x 72 inches
Metamorphosis
1996, charcoal and conte on paper,
40 x 30 inches
The Lure
1993, graphite on paper,
14.5 x 17.5 inches
Collection of Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Cicada
2001, oil on shaped panels,
40 x 120 inches (triptych)
Collection of James A. Michener
Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
Indicator
2000, watercolor,
21 x 19.5 inches
Private Collection
Night Life
1998, oil onprepared paper,
18 x 19 inches
Collection of Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
Predator
2000, oil on prepared paper,
23 x 41 inches
Private Collection
Pregnant Plant
1995, pastel,
21 x 28 inches
Private Collection
Marietta Train
1993, oil on panel,
30 x 23 inches
private collection
Clearing
1994, acrylic on panel,
12 x 12 inches
private collection
Refuge
1997, oil on panel,
48 x 48 inches
Collection of Southern Alleghenies
Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Elizabeth Quinn Sleeping
2005, 6 color hand pulled lithograph
from 1 stone and 5 plates,
10.3 x 10 inches
Piñata
2004, oil on prepared paper,
26 x 19 inches
private collection
Origins
2007, oil on museum board mounted on shaped aluminum panels,
84 x 76 x 6 inches (altarpiece/triptych)
Fossil
1997, mixed media on paper,
27 x 38 inches
Study for Movement
2010, mixed media over pigment print,
37 x 33 inches
Fire and Ice
2004, digitally manipulated pigment print,
23 x 19 inches
Convergence
2012, pastel on museum board,
18.25 x 32.5 inches
Private Collection
Above and Beneath
2004, mixed media,
24 x 19 inches
Trillium
2002, manipulated pigment print,
9 x 13 inches
Beach at Night
2001, watercolor,
31 x 31 inches
Calm
2004, oil on board,
11 x 15 inches
Post Season
2002, watercolor,
11 x 15 inches
Migration
1997, mixed media on paper,
20 x 27.75 inches
Private Collection
River Rose
2017, pastel on museum board,
12 x 12 inches
Private Collection
The Way Out
2017, pastel on museum board,
12 x 9 inches
Resting Swans
2018, pastel on museum board,
12 x 17 inches
On the Edge
2022, pastel on museum board,
12 x 9 inches
Weeping Willow II
2020, pastel on museum board,
20 x 16 inches
Susquehannock I
2021, pastel on museum board,
14.75 x 21.75 inches
Private Collection