Sale 2487 - African-American Fine Art, October 4, 2018

43 c MINNIE EVANS (1892 - 1987) Untitled . Color crayons and pencils on wove paper, 1955. 305x229 mm; 12x9 inches. Signed in pencil, and traced in pen and ink, lower right. Provenance: Sacks Fine Art, New York; private collection, New York (1993). North Carolina artist Minnie Evans is known for these colorful, visionary images drawn in crayon, pencils and watercolor on paper. Evans, who worked as a housekeeper in Wrightsville Beach and then Airlie Gardens in Wilmington as a gatekeeper, believed she heard a divine voice on Good Friday, 1935, telling her to draw. Evans went on to create over a thousand works on paper with symmetrical and surreal compositions of faces, f lora and fauna. Brought to national prominence by the photographer Nina Howell Starr in the 1960s and a 1969 Newsweek article, Evans had a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1975. [3,000/5,000]