Background
Evelyn was born on 1 December in 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Jacob and Anne (Levinberg) Mitchell.
Evelyn was born on 1 December in 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Jacob and Anne (Levinberg) Mitchell.
Evelyn studied at Chicago Academy Fine Art in Chicago, Illinois, United States in 1944.
From 1933 to 1942 Evelyn was a student of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Instructor printmaking Pittsburgh Center for Arts, 1966-1968. Instructor Art Institute Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, 1968-1982, Art Institute Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1982-1991. Presenter Art Workshop Institute, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, 1993, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida, 1993-1997, Museum Art, Fort Lauderdale, 1995, Schacknow Museum Fine Art (now Coral Springs Museum Fine Art), 1997-2010.
Painting, life drawing teacher Wynmoor Condonim, Coconut Creek, Florida, 2005-2007. Consultant Vocational Services, Pitts. With pib. sculpture commissions Broward Cultural Division Art Selection Committee.
One-woman shows include Pittsburgh Laboratory, Coral Springs Mus Art, 1998, Theatre Gallery, 1975, Pittsburgh Center for Arts, Upstairs Gallery, 1969, 78, Country Studio, Hadley, Pennsylvania, 1979, Art Institute Fort Lauderdale, 1983, 89. Exhibited in group shows at Museum Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1967, 74, William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1968, 71, Pittsburgh Water Color Society, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, (Westinghouse Purchase awards 1967-1968), Duquesne Union Gallery, Pittsburgh, 1970, Pittsburgh Center for Arts, 1972, Museum Without Walls, Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, 1975, Pittsburgh Print Group Arts and Crafts Center, 1976-1982, Continuum Art Center, Miami Beach., Florida, 1985, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida, 1986, Museum Art, Fort Lauderdale, 1990, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, 1990, 95-96, Boca Museum, Boca Raton, Florida, 1994, LaDuce Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, 1995, Schmidt Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 1997, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Art Encounter, The Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, Florida, 2005, Art at its Best, Northern Trust Gallery, Aventura, Florida, 2005, 3d Avenue Art Walk, Fort Lauderdale, 2005.Multimedia exhibition JM Family Enterprises Gallery at Art Serve, Fort Lauderdale, 2006, Sacred Spaces, Art Basel Jewish Museum Florida, Miami Beach, Florida, 2007, The Red Eye, Multi Media Exhibition, Art Serve, Fort Lauderdale, 2007, Art Descartes, Nat Exhibition Wholely Rags Stable Valley, Toas, New Mexico, 2008, Common Roots Botanical Gardens, Miami Beach, Florida, 2009, City Pembroke Pines Glass Gallery, Florida, 2009, Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, Florida, 2010, Fiber and Print Making Exhibition, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2010. Represented in permanent collections Mount Mercy College, Pittsburgh, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Board Education, Pittsburgh National Bank, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Industries, Pittsburgh, Art Institute Pittsburgh, Miami-Dade Public Library. Systems, Art Institute Florida, Miami Dade Public library Systems, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Industries, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh National Bank, Noyes Museum Art, Oceanville, New Jersey.Exhibitions include Noyes Museum Art, 2000, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, New Jersey, 2004, Armory Center West Palm Beach, Florida, 2010.
Advisory board Arts Renaissance Center, Pennsylvania. Scenery painter Chalk River Drama Group, 1951-1952. Troop leader Girl Scouts United States, Pittsburgh, 1961-1962.
Volunteer Broward County Library., Fort Lauderdale, 1985-1988, Salvation Army, Fort Lauderdale, 1993. Chair national exhibition Palm Beach Community College, Lake Worth, Florida, Fine Art Gallery, Broward Community College, Davie, Florida, with Broward County Cultural Divisions Selection Committee Public Sculpture Communications 09-10. Member 2 + 3 Artists Organization (chairman exhibitions task force), Pennsylvania Crafts Marketing Cooperative (chairman museum public relations, board directors), Pittsburgh Society Artists (charter, Merit award 1970), Associated Artists Pittsburgh (social chairman, award 1967-1968), Pittsburgh Print Group (charter, education chairman, board directors, appointed to Art Selection committee City of Hollywood, 2005-2007).
Evelyn married to Yale Solomon on 17 August in 1946 (divorced September 1977). Children: Barry Mitchell Solomon, Paula Harriet Solomon and Roy Blair Solomon.