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Evan Lindquist
"Knight, Bird & Burin", Burin engraving, 8" X 4.9", 2006
Visit my online gallery: www.clt.astate.edu/elind
Artist Statement
When I was very young my parents encouraged me to make marks in imitation of my father's elegant Ornamental Penmanship. Those lines, and the copperplate style of penmanship, have continued to be part of my way of seeing for more than 65 years.
Following several years of making childish lines with ink pens, I began a professional career as a calligrapher. In 1955, I began experimenting with a burin, learning to engrave lines, crudely, into plates of copper.
I have learned from everybody. My favorite artists always seemed to be the old master printmakers whose surviving images were comments on society and the human condition as they perceived it. I am most indebted to these old master printmakers: Goya, Rembrandt, Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, Hogarth, Daumier, Gillray, Tiepolo, and Whistler.
I was born during The Great Depression in Salina, Kansas, close to where my Swedish pioneer ancestors had homesteaded. I majored in both Art and Biology at Emporia State University. I taught Biology labs in the Biology Department and worked as Staff Artist in Graphic Arts and Printing. In 1960 at The University of Iowa, I began graduate studies with Mauricio Lasansky in Printmaking.
I have been richly rewarded in life by having teachers in both Art and Biology who cared about giving me the best they had to offer. In 1963 with my new MFA diploma in hand, I began teaching Art and Printmaking at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. I retired 40 years later. In 2004, I was honored to receive the Arkansas Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award and an Emporia State University Distinguished Alumni Award.
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