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Minnie Jones Evans

Minnie Jones Evans (1892 - 1987) was active/lived in North Carolina.  Minnie Evans is known for Abstract, naive crayon drawing, religious and mystical.

"I love people, to a certain extent, but sometimes I want to get off in the garden to talk with God. I have the blooms, and when the blooms are gone, I love to watch the green. God dressed the world in green." -- Minnie Evans

As gatekeeper at the formal Airlie Gardens in North Carolina since the 1930's, Minnie Evans did artwork informed by her love of flora and fauna, as well as her deeply held Christian beliefs.

An important American visionary artists of the 20th century, Evans was collected by Jean Dubuffet in the 1960's and has been exhibited widely, including a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1975.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Minnie Jones Evans


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
  • Easel Painting
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Folk Art, Folk Lore
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
  • Still Life
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Outsider Art
Ethnicity of Artist
  • Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Special Group
  • Outsider Art Fair, New York City

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