While Evans initially painted postage stamps as a child, he returned to making them in 1971, shortly after graduating from Cornell University and training as an architectural designer with Richard Meier and Associates in New York City.
[5] Evans traveled widely during the six-year period in which he painted professionally, often renting small flats or staying with friends.
Several prominent critics and authors have admired Evans’s work, including Bruce Chatwin,[8] Adam Gopnik,[9] Nick Bantock[10] and Takashi Hiraide.
Yet I can't think of another artist who expressed more succinctly and beautifully the best aspirations of those years: the flight from war and the machine; the asceticism; the nomadic restlessness; the yearning for sensual cloud-cuckoo-lands; the retreat from public into private obsessions, from the big and noisy to the small and still.
Hiraide offers an explanation of the postcards in the "Afterword" of his book, "These words of correspondence were written to the deceased painter, but he was not the addressee.
[16] The webpage also includes a listing for a publication from 1999 and an article which accompanied the 2022 exhibit, "A Travelogue of Imaginary Lands in Stamps" by John Yau in Hyperallergic.
[18] Artpool Hungary [1] (artistamp museum site featuring Donald Evans—also check out other Evans links at page's bottom).