Walter and Linda Evans, Committed to African-American Art

The collector couple created one of the world's most important collections of African-American art and cultural heritage, bequeathed in part to the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. Three exceptional letters from their collection are presented in Paris, at the Pantheon. © Courtesy Walter & Linda Evans Center for African American Studies What led you to start collecting?Walter: It all started in the 1960s with a date at a Philadelphia museum I’d never visited. I was 19. To impress my date, I read up on the European Impressionists, whom I’d never heard of! I kept on reading and visiting American museums. More