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Minnie Jones Evans

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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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25 Book References for Minnie Jones Evans
Year Author Title Pages Color
2018 Blackman, Lynne (Editor), The Johnson Collection Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection 245 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Taha, Halima Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas 270 Yes
1997 Powell, Richard J Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century 256 Yes
1996 Delehanty, Randolph Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection 292 Yes
1996 Rosenak, Chuck and Jan Contemporary American Folk Art A Collectors's Guide 320 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1994 Kelley, Harmon; D. Hyland, G. Coker, et all The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
1994 San Antonio Museum of Art African American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 Yes
1993 Maresca, Frank, Roger Ricco American Self-Taught: Paintings and Drawings by Outsider Artists 298 Yes
1993 Perry, Regina A Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art 203 Yes
1992 Pennington, Estill Curtis A Southern Collection 246 Yes
1990 Rosenak, Chuck and Jan Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists 416 Yes
1989 Dallas Museum of Fine Art Black Art/Ancestral Legacy
(Exhibition catalog)		 305 Yes
1986 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas Heavenly Visions The Art of Minnie Evans
(Exhibition catalog)		 51 Yes
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1983 Johnson, Jay; William Ketchum American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century 342 Yes
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1979 Withers, Josephine Women Artists in Washington Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1976 Driskell, David C Two Centuries of Black American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
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