John Evans (American, b. 1945), Untitled oilstick on paper, signed in pencil lower center, gallery label (Allan Stone Gallery, New York) affixed verso, sheet: sight size is 22"h x 30"w, overall (with frame, frame needs replacing): 32"h x 39.5"w (the number on the stickers verso is different. not sure why) John Evans earned his MFA in 1979 from Boston University, where he studied under Abstract Expressionist painter Philip Guston and James Weeks, who was part of the movement of Bay Area Figurative School painters (which inluded artists such as Richard Diebenkorn.) He has exhibited at museums and galleries across the U.S., and received reviews in publications including Art in America, The Wall Street Journal, and Art News. He is found in the collections of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, among others. SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK 2006 "40 Years: A Dealer's Collection," Gallery Henoch, New York, NY 2001 Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA - New Works Summer Show 2000 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA - "Four Artists- Robert DiNiro Sr., Paul Resika, John Evans, Dennis Hare" 1997 National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington,DC - Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America 1997 Allan Stone Gallery, ADAA, New York, NY - "The Art Show" 1994 Newton Art Center, Newton, MA - Nine Artists Who Studied With Philip Guston 1994 International Art Exposition, Miami, FL - Art Miami 1992 Gay Head Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA 1990 Capital Cities / ABC,NY,NY - "37 Painters and Sculptors: On View" SELECTED COLLECTIONS Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK Boston Public Library, Boston, MA AT&T, New York, NY Chase Manhatten Bank, New York, NY E.F. Hutton & Co., New York, NY BankBoston, Boston, MA