Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans

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Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans

This featured exhibition marks the first career retrospective of Terry Evans (b. 1944), one of the nation’s finest landscape photographers. Evans—a Kansas City native—is widely recognized for her views of the Midwest prairie, its people, and its artifacts.

In recent years, she has also explored other subjects: natural history museum specimens, the city of Chicago, the steel and oil industries. Her life’s work is characterized by an abiding sense of curiosity and wonder, and a warm, empathetic engagement with her subjects. Evans’ photographs reflect her lifelong interest in the intricate and often complex relationship between our land and our lives.

This exhibition will include 100 color and black-and-white photographs spanning Evans’ full career, beginning in 1971 to the present. It will be accompanied by a fully illustrated, 250 page exhibition catalogue.

Bison at Maxwell Game Preserve, Roxbury, Kansas by Terry Evans — Terry Evans, American (b. 1944). Bison at Maxwell Game Preserve, Roxbury, Kansas, December 1981. Inkjet print, printed 2012, Sheet: 37 7/8 x 38, Image: 29 15/16 x 30. Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, 2012.17.12. © Terry Evans.

Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans has been organized by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and is supported by Molly McGee, Swiss Re, the Hall Family Foundation, the Mellon-Frick-Rothschild Publication Fund and the Campbell-Calvin Fund and Elizabeth C. Bonner Charitable Trust for exhibitions.