Paul Evans
Room Screen

Room Screen
Room Screen
Room Screen
DesignerAmerican, 1931–1987
DesignerAmerican, 1919–2008
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Room Screen
Date1955
MediumWalnut, iron, and gold leaf
DimensionsOverall (Extended): 84 × 58 3/4 × 1 3/8 in. (213.4 × 149.2 × 3.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation
Object number2011.440
Not on view

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Object Type
Provenance[Wright, Chicago, May 2006, Lot 152]; [FRIO Administrative Services, Inc.]; purchased by MFAH, 2011.
Exhibition History"The Spirit of Modernism: The John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 20, 2011–February 20, 2012.

"Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism," James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, March 1–June 1, 2014; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, June 21–October 12, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
No visible marks, signature, or inscriptions.

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