COLL/536 Guide to the Edgar Boevé Collection Boevé, Edgar Collection

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Guide to the Edgar Boevé Collection 1949/2012 Heritage Hall, Hekman Library Overview of the Collection Edgar Boevé Collection 1949-2012 COLL/536 Boevé, Edgar, 1929- 0.50 1 Boxes Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
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Edgar G. Boevé is a professor of art emeritus at Calvin College.
Biographical Information:

Edgar Boevé has been dubbed as the “Face of Art” for Calvin College. Boevé was born in 1929 in Marshalltown, Iowa. Boevé helped developed Calvin College’s art department in the late 1950s. He lived with his parents in parsonages in Grand Rapids, Louisiana, and Ridgewood, New Jersey where hegraduated from Eastern Christian High School and later from Franklin School of the Arts in New York City. He also graduated from Calvin College and the University of Michigan. Boevé married Ervina Van Dyke in 1955 and joined her on the faculty of Calvin College in 1958. They collaborated on many theater productions together. An artist himself, Boevé created religious art for over 70 years, using a variety of mediums. His distinctive artwork has been commissioned for Christian high schools and churches as well as displayed in numerous art galleries. In 2018, Edgar and Ervina were honored with the establishment of The Edgar and Ervina Endowment for the Arts for the Calvin Theological Seminary. Boevé was the first president of Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA). His book on art education as well as numerous devotional books were published by the Calvin Theological Seminary. Boevé was a professor of art emeritus and remained active in the art community until his death in 2019.

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Detailed List of Contents id62160 [General Materials] id62161 1 id62162 1 1 Biographical data 1962-2004 id62163 1 2 Art Works id62164 1 3 Calvin College items id62165 1 4 Letters of application id62166 1 5 Programs, articles, church banners id62167 1 6 News articles id62168 1 7 Photographs, Hilton Kramer 1950s-2009 id62169 1 8 Artwork, Henry Zylstra 2008, nd