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Welcome to Our Site ! Now, don'tcha' run off yet !! Just come on in and sit a spell.....
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Let me introduce myself. I’m Virginia, wife to Marvin Evers who started Art Connection. We are parents of four children, two sons-in-law, and grandparents of five active grandchildren.
Below is my tale of two lives. . . . .
I was raised in Enid, Oklahoma, and Marvin grew up in a farm and ranch community twenty miles nearby. Although he helped his father farm wheat and raise cattle, he excelled in fitting cattle as an FFA teenager achieving the Master Farmer Award at Garber High School which became known as ‘Home of the Champions!’ In fact, he had champion shorthorn and angus steers simultaneously at the Oklahoma City State Fair, a fete never accomplished before! (or since?) Uncle Sam called him to the army, and while serving in Japan, he couldn’t wait to get back home to the show cattle business.
I'm not claiming to be ‘The Million Dollar Baby at the Five and Ten Cents Store,’ but while working at F. W. Woolworth after school one day, a 'certain young cowboy’ came in to ‘look me over’ which started our 15 month courtship. He worked hard at a well known ranch traveling with show cattle all over America until his 'big break' came as herdsman for a Colorado Hereford Ranch. After convincing me to marry six months earlier than planned, we set off to begin a new life in his almost paid for used '41 Chevy. Little did I know, that the Roy Rodgers and Dale Evans movies I had seen of a leisurely horseback ride in the pastures, checking and moving cattle, and ending the day on the front porch singing to a guitar was not a true picture of a cowboy’s lifestyle! Far from it, indeed.
Working 7 days a week, we raised 5 children, won lots of ribbons and trophies at cattle shows and sold a lot of cattle for three ranch owners. After 20 years, like most ranchers, his chronic back problems could not be solved, and doctors prescribed a change of vocation. So, we ventured on to a new lifestyle when Marvin became a District Representative for AAL, the most successful fraternal insurance society in America. Many honors came his way the next 20 years. However, that all changed with a birthday gift. Virginia gave him a limited edition print of a Hereford calf by Wayne Baize, and months later, he bought a group of prints benefiting the West Texas Rehabilitation Center in Abilene, Texas where we lived. As he traveled with the insurance business, he started visiting art galleries, and you guessed it! He became addicted to buying ‘just one more’. (Virginia coined a new word calling him an ‘art-a-holic’!)
One day, an art broker called wanting Marvin to sell a print from his private collection. That was the beginning of 'Art Connection'. It became such an exciting experience not only to seek out the best art, but also to sell it, helping other people enjoy it, that he retired at an early age from insurance and devoted all of his energy to the new art business. In fact, he was so successful, that he insisted I quit my Real Estate career and help him at home. My previous experience in bookeeping, advertising, brokering real estate and serving in various church positions were suddenly being applied to all aspects of the art business.
Always being very involved in our church life, and busy with the art, we decided to move to Houston in 2000 to ‘watch’ our grandchildren grow up. We continue to enjoy meeting new friends locally, and those in other states, as we solve their art problems, whether it be a new work of art, a rare one we have to search for, or just custom framing their family portraits and art for their homes and offices.
Well, there you have ‘The Rest of the Story’! With 25 years behind us in his 3rd career of art business, Marvin is still going very strong. Don’t forget to view the rest of our website, and you’ll see how Marvin keeps busy. We’re here to answer your questions and ponder your suggestions. So enjoy our website, and give us a call!
Ya’ll come back, ya’ hear?
Marvin & Virginia Evers, [henceforth referred to as 'Va']
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