Leya Evelyn
{{Short description|Canadian artist (born 1937)}}
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| birth_date = 1937
| birth_place = Washington, D.C., United States
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| nationality = Canadian
| education = Brown University; Yale University
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| style = Abstract artist
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| elected = Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (2011)
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Leya Evelyn ({{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}}) is a Canadian artist.
Life and work
Born in Washington, DC, Evelyn attended Brown University and Yale University (studying under Josef Albers).{{cite web|url=http://www.visualarts.ns.ca/artist-pages/leya-evelyn/|title=Leya Evelyn|publisher=Visual Arts Nova Scotia|accessdate=7 March 2015}} She emigrated to Nova Scotia in the 1980s.{{cite web|url=http://www.secordgallery.com/gallery/main.php/Leya-Evelyn/|publisher=Secord Gallery|title=Leya Evelyn|accessdate=7 March 2015}} She is noted for her abstract art integrating pieces of photographs.{{cite web|url=https://www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art/content/galleryoneoneone/evel.html|title=Leya Evelyn|work=Vanguard|year=1987|page=42}} Evelyn teaches at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/news/RCA%20new_members2011.pdf|title=New Members|publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Her paintings are shown by galleries in Halifax, Calgary, Edmonton, San Francisco, New York, Switzerland and Denmark.{{cite web|url=http://www.visualarts.ns.ca/artist-pages/leya-evelyn/|title=Leya Evelyn|accessdate=11 March 2015}}
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Category:Artists from Washington, D.C.
Category:Canadian abstract artists
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:Academic staff of NSCAD University
Category:20th-century Canadian painters
Category:21st-century Canadian painters
Category:Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Category:20th-century Canadian women painters
Category:21st-century Canadian women painters
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