Section of a Pillar or Support
William Leon Evans, Jr. (b.1935), Kansas City, MO and Aspen, CO, by 1978 [1];
His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1978.
[1] Until Evans moved to Aspen, Colorado in the 1990s, he and his former wife (née Susan Baker, b. 1940) were members of the museum’s Society of Fellows. Evans was also an advocate and avid collector of contemporary art. During the early 1960s, Evans worked in France and Germany and continued conducting business in Europe into the 1990s.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 395, (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 279, fig. 11, (repro.).
