Artist, activist Gordon Evans remembered for his passions
Gordon and Betty Evans. Photo by Hanson Studios For over 50 years Gordon Evans sculpted and painted in the studio behind the Valley Park Drive home that he and his wife purchased shortly after World War II. Evans died Saturday, March 20, following a short illness. He was 83. He and his wife Betty met at Dorsey High and married in 1946, after he returned from the war in the South Pacific. The couple moved to Paris for several years so Gordon could study art, and then returned to Hermosa, where Betty had grown up. Evans devoted himself to painting and sculpture after retiring from Aerospace Corporation, where he was a technical illustrator. His two daughters, Suzanne and Jeanne also became artists. Dorsey High classmate and lifelong friend Les Guthrie recalled Evans as passionate about art and cantankerous about everything else, even in his youth. “He’d argue nearly to the death, and if it looked like he was losing, he’d say, ‘What do I know, I’m just an artist.’” Evans was an avid waterman through much of his life, a passion that led his son Bob to found Force Fins, a company that manufacturers swim fins used by competitive body surfers and marine military forces, world wide. But…
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