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Grose Evans

1928–2000

Known for writing clear, accessible books on European and American art, this art historian helped general readers get closer to painters like Vincent van Gogh and Benjamin West. Her work also explored major museum collections, especially at the National Gallery of Art.

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French Painting of the 19th Century in the National Gallery of Art

French Painting of the 19th Century in the National Gallery of Art

by Grose Evans

About the author

Grose Evans was an American art historian and writer associated with books on museum collections and major painters. Sources available here consistently connect her with titles including French Painting of the 19th Century in the National Gallery of Art, Benjamin West and the Taste of His Times, and a work on Vincent van Gogh.

The strongest confirmed details point to a career centered on making art history approachable for a broad audience. Her published work suggests a particular interest in European painting of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as in explaining artists and collections in a concise, reader-friendly way.

Some online sources disagree about her birth year, so it is safest to say only that she lived in the twentieth century and died in 2000. I could not confirm a reliable portrait image from the sources I found, so none is included here.