"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... Read full biography
"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... Read full biography
"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... Read full biography
"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. Source: . Christie's New York... Read full biography
"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. Source: . Christie's New York... Read full biography
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About Minnie Jones Evans: Books
Books & Publications (25)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
2018
Blackman, Lynne (Editor), The Johnson Collection
245 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas
1998
Taha, Halima
270 pages (color)
Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century
1997
Powell, Richard J
256 pages (color)
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
Contemporary American Folk Art A Collectors's Guide
1996
Rosenak, Chuck and Jan
320 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Kelley, Harmon; D. Hyland, G. Coker, et all
68 pages (color)
African American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1994
San Antonio Museum of Art
67 pages (color)
American Self-Taught: Paintings and Drawings by Outsider Artists
1993
Maresca, Frank, Roger Ricco
298 pages (color)
Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art
1993
Perry, Regina A
203 pages (color)
A Southern Collection
1992
Pennington, Estill Curtis
246 pages (color)
Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists
1990
Rosenak, Chuck and Jan
416 pages (color)
Black Art/Ancestral Legacy (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Dallas Museum of Fine Art
305 pages (color)
Heavenly Visions The Art of Minnie Evans (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Kahan, Mitchell Douglas
51 pages (color)
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century
1983
Johnson, Jay; William Ketchum
342 pages (color)
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
Women Artists in Washington Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Withers, Josephine
144 pages (color)
Two Centuries of Black American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Driskell, David C
221 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory