(1892-1987)African-American artist Minnie Evans created richly colored paintings with romantic and mystical overtones that have earned her well-deserved recognition. On Good Friday in 1935, Minnie Evans created her first two drawings (now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City). She claimed that no one taught her to draw, that it just came to her. However, Minnie did not draw again until the 1940s, when she would sit in the gatehouse at North Carolina's Airlie Gardens, where she was gatekeeper, and draw, selling her finshed work to tourists.
Minnie Evan's work is now in major museums, and she fills an important niche in the folk art history of the twentieth century.
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Medium : watercolor and crayon on paper
Size : 16 x 16
Price : $9500
