PERSONAL INFORMATION

Born in Swanscombe, Kent, England in 1923 and emigrated to the United States in 1954.

EDUCATION

Studied Sculpture at the Belfast College of Art, Belfast, Ireland, 1946 - 1948.
Full scholarship to the Cambridge College of Art, 1938 - 1941.


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Cambridge College of Art, Cambridge, England, 1949 - 1954
Instructor in Sculpture (part time)

San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, 1958 - 1962

Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 1960 - 1988
Professor of Sculpture -- Retired in 1988, Professor Emeritus


AWARDS

First Sculpture Award, Dublin, Ireland, 1947.
The Lanvin Perfume Purchase Prize, Witte Museum, San Antonio Museum Association, 1960.
Beaumont Museum Award, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio Museum Association, 1962.
San Antonio Artist of the Year Award, San Antonio Art League, 1962.

WORK IN MAJOR COLLECTIONS

McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Roswell Museum, New Mexico
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
San Antonio Museum Association, San Antonio, Texas Imperial War Museum, London, England
Montclair Museum, New Jersey
Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
The University of Texas at Austin

PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS

From 1954 through 1956 Sam Houston, Governor Allan Shivers, and J. Frank Dobie, etc.


MEDALS DESIGNED

1968 Texas HemisFair Medallion
Trinity Centennial Medallion, 1968

ONE MAN EXHIBITS

Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, Philip John Evett, August 26 -September 23, 1956.
Stewart-Richard Gallery, Philip John Evett, April 1-15, 1960.
Centennial Museum, Corpus Christi, Texas, Philip John Evett Sculpture, February 1 - 11, 1961.
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio Museum Association,
Philip John Evett: Artist of the Year, May 13, June 3, 1962.
Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center, the School of Fine Arts, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas,
Philip John Evett Exhibition, October 1964.
Men of Art Guild Gallery, Evett: Sculpture and Drawings, April 11-25, 1965.
Ruth Taylor Theater, Trinity University, Philip John Evett, 1966.
North Star Gallery, Philip John Evett, November 1967.
Frank C. Smith Fine Arts Center, Texas Agricultural and Industrial University,
Kingsville, Texas, Philip John Evett, January 1968.
Sol del Rio Gallery, Philip John Evett, January 30 - February 11, 1970.
Philip Evett Studio Gallery, Philip John Evett/Cecil Casebier, May 28, 1971.
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico. Philip Evett: Sculpture & Drawings.
March 4 - April 8, 1973.
Contemporary Art Gallery, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico. Philip John Evett. April 16, May 6, 1973.
Bright Shawl Gallery. Philip John Evett. February 1978.
Sol del Rio Gallery. Philip John Evett. August 19, September 15, 1982.
Sculpture featured in Texas Homes Magazine, September 1983.
Sol Del Rio Gallery. Philip John Evett. New Works, September 10-25, 1993.
Aviart Gallery. New Works. San Antonio, 1998.
Incarnate Word University Center For Spirituality and the Arts, 1999.
U.T.S.A., San Antonio, Philip Evett Sculpture & Drawing, 2003.
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas, Aura of the Past & Future, 2004.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Laguna Gloria Art Gallery, Austin, Texas. Texas Fine Arts Association Circuit Exhibition. September 1956.
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio Museum Association.
Twenty-eighth Annual Local Artists Exhibition. April 20 - May 4, 1958.
Laguna Gloria Art Gallery, Austin, Texas Annual Spring Jury Exhibition. May 9 -June 5, 1958.
Men of Art Guild Gallery. Philip John Evett/Martha Mood. July S - September 22, 1958.
Orco Stained Glass Studio. Art For Architects. August 1959.
Stewart-Rickard Gallery. Evett Sculpture/Bernhardt Prints. April 13-23, 1960.
Ruth Taylor Fine Arts Center, Trinity University, Cecil Casebier/Philip John Evett. September 15-3-, 1960.
Ruth Taylor Music Center, Trinity University. Combined Faculty Exhibit. September 13-30, 1960.
Men of Art Guild Gallery. 1960 Membership Exhibition. September 16-30, 1960.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas. Young Collections. Spring, 1961.
Stewart-Rickard Gallery. Philip John Evett/Jack Tinkle. April 2-22, 1961.
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio Museum Association.
Thirty-first Annual Local Artists Exhibition. April 9-30, 1961.
Mexican Art Gallery, Consulado General de Mexico.
Pintruas y Litografias de Rufino Tamayo/Esculturas de Philip (sic)
John Evett. July 16 - August 16, 1961.
Rawlins-Chandler Gallery, Dallas, Texas. Philip John Evett/Maurice Schmidt. June 17 - July 17, 1962.
Sala Internacional, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Palacio de Bellas Aetes, Mexico City, Mexico.
Men of Art Guild de San Antonio, Texas. June 1962.
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio Museum Association.
Twenty-fourth Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 1962, 1963.
Carlin Galleries, Fort Worth, Texas. Ishmael Soto, Chet LaMore and Philip John Evett.
November 18 - December 23, 1962.
Arkansas Aet Center, Little Rock, Arkansas. Young Sculptors of the South and West.
May 16 - June 15, 1963.
Ruth Taylor Fine Arts Center, Trinity University. Cecil Casebier/Philip John Evett. November 1-20, 1965.
HemisFair Plaza. Sculpture, Murals and Fountains at HemisFair ‘68.
The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio.
The Sphere of Art in Texas. April 6 - October 6,1968.
Friedrich Gallery, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio Museum Association. Evett Sculpture -
A Sight and Sound Experience Directed by Mr. Bill Larsen. April 6, 1970.
Philip Evett Studio Gallery. Evett: ‘72 Recent Sculpture/Cecil Lang Casebier: Landscape Paintings.
October 27 - November 13, 1972.
The Eighth Street Gallery. The Eighth Street Group. May, 1973.
Evett Studio Gallery. New Works: Cecil Lang Casebier, Philip John Evett, Allen C. Holley.
December, 1975.
Ars Longa Galleries, Houston, Texas. Philip John Evett and Jean Weinbaum. November 5-30, 1975.
The Eighth Street Gallery. Group Show. December 3-10, 1976.
Eight Street Gallery Group, The Eight Street Gallery, July 1977
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio Museum Association. Faculty Painting sand Sculpture.
September 1977
Charlton Art Gallery. Philip John Evett/Gilberto Antonio Tarin, March - April, 1979.
The One Seguin Art Center, Seguin, Texas. Painting and Sculpture Exhibition 1980,
November 16 - December 19, 1980.
Jango’s Restaurant, Bar and Gallery. The San Antonio Men of Art.
Laurie Auditorium, Trinity University, Artists at Work: An Exhibition of New Work
by the Trinity University Art Faculty,
March 20-27, 1983.
McNay Art Museum. Aspects of the Collection: Sculpture Survey. June 26 - August 28, 1983.
Artists Alliance Gallery. Trinity University Art Faculty Exhibition. October 14-26, 1984.
Artists Alliance Gallery, Trinity University Art Faculty Exhibition, October 1984.
Philip John Evett, Drawing in Space, retrospective exhibition, organized by Norris
Fergeson, September - November 1985. Catalog of exhibition located in the Library of Congress,
Catalog Card #85-62093.
1SBN.0-916677-04-4. Catalog designed by Jeffrey Jackson.
Exhibit with Michael Bigger and Stanley Marcus, Read Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio.
Full-page feature ad in Artspace Magazine, Summer issue, 1988.
Art to Heart, Read Stremmel Gallery, Silent auction to benefit San Antonio medical Center’s Heart Program.
Received highest bid at $5,000. Covered in Texas Monthly Magazine, February 1989.
Contemporary Moods, Sol del Rio Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, Summer 1991.
1992 Sculpture Project, Santa Fe College, New Mexico.
Trinity University Art Faculty, Recent Works, San Antonio Art Institute, Texas, 1992.
Blue Star-Red Dot Art Sale, Blue Star Art Space, November 1992.
Philip John Evett - New Sculpture and Drawings,
one man exhibit at Sol del Rio, San Antonio, Texas, September - October 1993.
1993 Sculpture Project, Santa Fe College, New Mexico.
Blue Star-Red Dot Art Sale, Blue Star Art Space, November 1993.
There for Texas, San Antonio Art League, June 1998.
Recent Sculptures & Drawings, Artists Gallery, June 1997
San Antonio Sculpture Invitational, 2004

COMMUNITY HONORS

City of San Antonio Fine Arts Commission, 1969 - 1973
Received Citation for Outstanding Service to the Community.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Active service in the Royal Air Force, 1941 - 1945.

Worked for the ecclesiastical restoration firm of Rattee and Kett, Ltd. ,
repairing Cathedrals and Churches and Inscriptional Letter Cutting on
University College Chapel War Memorials, 1947 - 1952.