Biography
Powys Arthur Lewthall Evans, known as ‘Quiz’ (b. London 1899 – d. Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales, UK 1981) studied at the Slade School of Art, with Spencer Gore and Robert Bevan of the Camden Town Group, under Henry Tonks and with Walter Sickert and Sylvia Gosse at the Westminster School of Art. However, he abandoned a career as an oil painter in favour of portrait illustration. Quiz made his name with a set of caricatures of Lovat designs to The Beggar's Opera (1922). He exhibited at the Little Rooms and published a portfolio of caricatures which attracted the attention of Filson Young, assistant editor of The Saturday Review, who then employed him as its caricaturist, which were later published as Eighty-Eight Cartoons (1926). A number of caricatures were also published in G K's Weekly. Quiz produced a series of pen-and-ink portraits for the London Mercury (some of which reappeared in Fifty Heads (1928). He had solo exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries in 1924 and 1925 when Max Beerbohm declared him his artistic heir. He also exhibited at the Goupil Gallery, Cooling Gallery (1930), at Colnaghi’s and Bumpus’ Bookshop (both 1932). After which he retired to Doglellau in Wales and only took up painting again when the Langton Gallery planned to hold a retrospective of his work which took place in London in 1975.
