Westport High School, The Herald (Kansas City, Missouri: 1927), 18, Kansas City Public Library KCHistory Yearbook Collection, accessed August 25, 2022. “Frolic At Art Exhibit,” Kansas City Star, May 25, 1929. “Laverna Evans in the 1930 United States Federal Census,” Ancestry, accessed August 25, 2022. “Art Scholarship Awards,” Kansas City Times, May 26, 1933. “Sunday Picture Journal: Pottery Hobby,” Kansas City Star, June 11, 1939. “Laverne Rubnitz in the 1940 United States Federal Census,” Ancestry, accessed August 25, 2022. “Named to Institute Staff: Miss LaVerna Evans Will Teach Fashion Illustration,” Kansas City Star, August 29, 1941. “Kansas City Artists Record Impressions of Scenes Here,” Kansas City Star, November 18, 1949, 33. “Officers Chosen for Dog Club,” Kansas City Star, January 27, 1975. Judith Evans Parker, “LaVerna Evans: Kansas City Artist,” (unpublished manuscript, 2022), typescript. “Laverna E Rubnitz in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007,” Ancestry, accessed August 25, 2022. “Laverna E Evans in the U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995,” Ancestry, accessed August 25, 2022. Bush, A History of Community Achievement: 1885-1964 (Kansas City: Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design, 1965), Ron Zoglin, Kansas City Art Institute Alumni Directory (Kansas City, Mo: Kansas City Art Institute, 1970). The collection of work she left behind documents the artist’s many worlds, from the heart of Kansas City’s fashion scene to the rugged Midwestern landscape. LaVerna Evans died on November 30, 2000, at 91 years old. While she did not frequently show her paintings, in 1949 Evans participated in an alumni exhibition at the Kansas City Art Institute. Many works reflect the Kansas City landscape, while others capture scenes from trips to Colorado, New Mexico, Cuba, the Caribbean, New England and Minnesota.
LAVERNA EVANS PROFESSIONAL
In 1980, she retired as an illustrator to focus on a new career as a professional championship dog breeder.Įvans frequently painted her surroundings, using watercolor to express feeling through composition, gesture and tone. Her clients included Macy’s, Robert Keith Furniture, Cousin’s Furniture, Robinson’s Shoes, and the Nine-Fifteen Junior Shop.
For the next thirty years, Evans was a premier illustrator of the Kansas City fashion scene. Commendable SchoolA school that has no underperforming student groups, a graduation rate greater than 67, and whose performance is not in the top 10 of. When the war was over, Evans returned to Kansas City and resumed freelance illustration. From 1942-1945, she taught at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Oklahoma College for Women.
During this period, Evans created mechanical illustrations for the Department of Defense and fashion illustrations for Manhattan department stores. During World War II, he served in the Medical Corps, and Evans traveled with him to Washington D.C., New York, and Oklahoma. In 1935, LaVerna Evans married Leon Rubnitz, a doctor from Milwaukee working at Menorah Hospital in Kansas City. She found freelance work illustrating for Kansas City stores Jaccard’s Jewelry Company and John Taylor’s Dry Goods Company, among other clients. Evans studied fashion design with Mary Lucas Rounds, sculpture with William Wallace Rosenbauer, and painting with Ross Eugene Braught.Īfter graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1932, Evans left home to work at the Art Institute of Chicago, before returning a year later to Kansas City after her mother’s sudden death. Arrangements are by Peppers Funeral Home of Wheeler. She knew she wanted to pursue art as a career, so she won scholarships to attend the Kansas City Art Institute. I am currently a finishing up my time at Southwestern Illinois College studying for an associates degree in Graphic Communications and a certificate in. LaVerna Evans Fillingim joined our Heavenly Father on Sunday, NovemCelebration of her Life will be Friday, Novemin the First Baptist Church of Wheeler with Rev. Evans graduated from Westport High School in 1927. Her father worked for the Union Pacific and Santa Fe Railroads, bringing the family to Kansas City in 1916. LaVerna Estelle Evans was born in Denison, Texas, on November 30, 1909. Known commercially for her fashion illustration, Evans was also a prolific painter and sculptor whose works captured the artist’s internal and external worlds. Modify Search Data Notes/Grant IDs HelpĬounty: ST.LaVerna Evans was a versatile artist who worked in Kansas City, Missouri, from the early 1930s to the late 1970s. NOTE: The inclusion or exclusion of a school in this locator does NOT constitute an endorsement of the school and should NOT be used in any way to infer the accreditation status of the school.
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