Rob Evans (Artist)
Contemporary Painting

realistic painting of lightning storm

butterfly painting by artist rob evans

contemporary realism painting of excavation

painting of flock of birds flying over highway

painting of boy and penyata

contemporary realism painting of circling clouds over house

beautiful landscape painting of circling clouds over river

photo realistic painting of grandfather clock and open door

painting of a flower in front of a beautiful landscape of clouds and a river

contemporary realism paintings of a boy walking on a road, and a butterfly

painting of a harbor with a cloudy moonlit night

dark painting of a butterfly

realistic painting driving down a road at night in a car with headlights on

realistic painting of a praying mantis in the foreground of a landscape painting

About the Artist
Rob Evans is an artist and independent curator who lives and works near Wrightsville, PA. He received a BFA from Syracuse University in 1981 and has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the E.D. Foundation, the Eben Demarest Trust and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Evans’ meticulous paintings and drawings have been featured in numerous solo and curated group exhibitions at such places as the Tretyakov Museum, Moscow; Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia; Arkansas Art Center; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; National Science Foundation; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA and an exhibition of American drawings organized by the Smithsonian Institution which toured internationally. In 2001, Evans’ 10 foot long painting, Cicada, traveled to five museums around the state of Pennsylvania as part of the exhibit, Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism in Pennsylvania Painting 1950-2000 and is now on long-term display at the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA.

Evans’ work can be found in many public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art; Corcoran Museum of Art; Achenbach Foundation of the California Legion of Honor, San Francisco Art Museums; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College; Portland (OR) Art Museum; State Museum of Pennsylvania; Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ; James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA; Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA; Lancaster(PA) Museum of Art; Allentown (PA) Art Museum; and the University of Delaware. His paintings have been featured in numerous books, newspapers and magazines and on public radio and television.

Artist Rob Evans Website & Social Media
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Article by James Day













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2 thoughts on “Dramatic Contemporary Landscape Paintings by Rob Evans”

  1. I am drawn to the art and can “feel” a mixture of sadness, worry, and dread… Yet still drawn… fascinated. –Greg

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