[2][3] She had her own cabin built on the Evans–Elbert Ranch, called the Anne Evans Mountain Home, near Evergreen, Colorado.

[5] Her brother is William Gray Evans who was president of the Denver Tramway, which ran the city's streetcars.

She also did this through commissions, financial support, and introductions to important people of the art community.

[3] One of the paintings that she donated to the museum was Rodeo Pick-Up Man by Frank Mechau.

[9] She received an honorary doctorate of fine arts degree from the University of Denver in 1939.

While she studied at the Art Students League of New York, she began to serve the club's governing council in 1896.

[2] Evans assisted in appointing the first curators to this collection, Edgar C. McMechen and Eric Douglas.

[5] The group provided advice to the city council and the major about all public works of art, including monuments, sculptures, and paintings.

[5] She redesigned[2] or established the Civic Center Park, which is today a National Historic Landmark.

[2][11] Gallery space was allotted at the main library due to Evan's influence.

She raised funds and encouraged others to create Liberty gardens in parks or their yards.

[13] To assist farmers who did not have workers to pick produce, Evans orchestrated an effort for 100 girls from Denver to work on farms.

[14] She was head of the food conservation department of the Woman's State Council of Defense.

[15] The Central City Opera Association was co-founded in the 1930s by Evans, Edna Chappell, and Ida Kruse McFarlane.

Evans, along with her friend Ida Kruse McFarlane, secured the funds to save the opera house from demolition.

[5] Designed by Burnham Hoyt,[9] it was reported on in the Rocky Mountain News and in the June 1917 edition of House Beautiful magazine.