Ernestine Evans

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For the New Mexico politician, see Ernestine D. Evans.

Ernestine Evans (August 9, 1889 – July 3, 1967) was an American journalist, editor, author and literary agent.

Life

Born in

Secret services reports released by the United Kingdom government in 2005 state that Evans left for Britain with Durant in 1925, after Durant was expelled from the United States due to his connection with various Communist front organisations.[3] Her relationship with Durant was over by 1935, when he married Evans's former colleague, the poet Genevieve Taggard.[4]

In the 1930s she met Walker Evans and Ben Shahn. Walker Evans was impressed by her intelligence and was always quick to point out they were not related.[5]

Evans's career also involved work for the

Office of War Information in the Overseas Publications department of the Publications Bureau. With this position, she collaborated with the African-American photographer Gordon Parks
, her colleague at OWI, who would go on to rise to prominence as a documentary photographer and film director.

Evans was a member of the Society of Woman Geographers, a group co-founded by her close friend Gertrude Emerson Sen.

Toward the end of her life, Evans suffered from a slew of medical problems, including

Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University
.

Art criticism

Evans authored the first English-language book on the famed Mexican painter

Harcourt Brace. The following year, Rivera was invited to the United States, and in 1931, he was the subject of a retrospective at New York City's Museum of Modern Art
.

Career in publishing

Over the course of her career, Evans worked for several publishing firms and literary agencies, including Coward-McCann and Lippincott (now

Saturday Review, The New Republic, Survey Graphic, and Delphian Quarterly
.

Evans's journalistic career frequently took her overseas, a somewhat unusual state of affairs for a single woman at this time. Writing essays for the Virginia Quarterly Review, she wedded politics to cultural criticism as she recounted her travels through Europe as a literary agent, telling firsthand of the distinctly Russian character of train journeys to the Caucasus; a 1920s Berlin in the midst of rising Nazism; government wiretapping and the antiquarian book trade in London.

Correspondence

Evans was a gregarious individual and a tireless writer of letters. She demonstrated an eagerness to expand her network of colleagues, collaborators and companions, and she engaged in correspondence with Walker Evans, Cornell Capa and Jean Renoir.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0-8139-1568-6
  2. ISBN 0-8078-5349-6
  3. ^ nationalarchives.gov.uk
  4. ISBN 0-313-30943-4
  5. ISBN 0-618-05672-6

External links
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