Dulah Marie Evans, later Dulah Marie Evans Krehbiel (17 February 1875 – 24 July 1951) was an American painter, photographer, printmaker, illustrator, and etcher.

Evans received commissions from the Armour Food Company and Santa Fe Railroad to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to photograph Native American subjects in their daily routine and performing ritualistic dances.

Early life

On February 17, 1875, Dulah Marie Llan Evans was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Her parents were builder and architect David Evans (1825 – 1897) and Marie Ogg Evans (1845 – 1897). Her father was born in Wales, and her mother immigrated to the United States from Switzerland. She had an older brother and sister, and a younger brother as well. Her sister was Mayetta Evans, a playwright and art dealer in Chicago.

Education

Evans attended William Penn University and in 1896 began her studies at The Art Institute of Chicago,

Exhibitions

  • 1908 The Art Institute of Chicago; Annual Exhibition of Watercolors by American Artists. Chicago, IL.
  • 1916 The Art Institute of Chicago; 28th Annual Exhibition of Watercolors, Pastels, and Miniatures by American Artists; The Colonial Bouquet, pastel on paper.
  • 1918 Dulah Evans Krehbiel at the First Exhibition of Works by Former Students and Instructors of the Art Institute of Chicago; January 8 to February 7, 1918
  • 1921 The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Exhibition; Dawn Comes Over The Mountain, 1921, 36" x 44", oil on canvas; Decoration For Yellow Tulip Room, circa 1920, oil on canvas.
  • 1922 The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Exhibition; Rain, circa 1921, oil on canvas; Music, circa 1920, 36" x 44", oil on canvas; Paloma Valley, circa 1920, 26" x 44½", oil on canvas.
  • 1923 Chicago Arts Club; Santa Monica Bay, 1920,17" x 21", oil on canvas; Mountain, December 1923, 23" x 24", oil on canvas.
  • 1927 Chicago Arts Club; Mountain Pass, 1920, 23" x 24", oil on canvas.
  • 1932 Chicago Arts Club; Spring Rain, circa 1930, 29" x 32", oil on canvas; Our Studio Entrance, circa 1932, 32" x 29", oil on canvas.
  • 1933 Chicago Arts Club; Portrait of Mayetta, circa 1933, 36" x 29", oil on canvas.
  • 1935 Chicago Arts Club; Mountains of the Blue Moon, 1924, 23" x 24", oil on canvas.
  • 1938 Chicago Arts Club; Cascade, A Study in Organization, 1938, 29" x 32", oil on canvas.
  • 1939 Chicago Arts Club; Portrait of E.L.K. (Evans Llan Krehbiel, Dulah’s son), 1939, 32" x 26", oil on canvas.
  • 1940 Chicago Arts Club; Precipice, circa 1939, oil on canvas.
  • 1941 Chicago Arts Club; Arrangement of Seashells, circa 1940, oil on canvas.
  • 1942 Chicago Arts Club; Flower Arrangement, circa 1942, oil on canvas.
  • 1945 Chicago Arts Club; Santa Monica Bay, 1920, 17x21, oil on canvas.
  • 1997 Sonnenschien Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois. Exclusive exhibition of the works of Dulah Marie Evans.
  • 1999 Chicago Cultural Center. Exhibition of the artists of the Tree Studio Building, Chicago, Illinois.
  • 2003 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. "Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890 – 1940", June 28 through Oct. 3rd.
  • 2005 The New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts. "Provincetown: A Creative Colony", Feb. 2nd through May 8.

Retrospectives

  • 1996 Dulah Evans: A Nineteenth-Century Modernist, Sonnenschein Gallery, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, USA.
  • 1999 Capturing Sunlight, Art of the Tree Studios, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, USA.