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Minnie Evans, African-American Outsider Artist,
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This review is from: Minnie Evans: Artist (Paperback)
Exhibition May 14 - August 6, 1993. Minnie (Jones) Evans, an African-American outsider artist, was born in southeastern North Carolina in 1892. Months later, her mother, who was aged 14 at the time of Minnie's birth, moved to Wilmington to live with her parents; Minnie was thus raised by her grandmother. For economic reasons she dropped out of school after the sixth grade and worked as a shellfish harvester for five years. She met and married Julius Evans in 1908, giving up her job, and for eight years was a full-time housewife. During this period she gave birth to three sons, two of whom survived. Beginning in 1916 she was employed as a domestic at the home of her husband's employer, Pembroke Jones, a wealthy industrialist. She began sketching around 1935, but did not take up art seriously until the 1940s. Her first "exhibitions" were in 1948, at Airlie Gardens, which had been established by Pembroke Jones and his wife Sara as a series of formal gardens and wildlife refuge open to the public. Minnie Evans was the gatekeeper, collecting admissions and selling her artwork on the side. She had her first formal exhibition of drawings and oils in 1961 at a gallery in Wilmington. In 1962 she began a friendship with Nina Howell Starr, who would publicize her work for the next 25 years. Starr arranged for her first New York exhibit in 1966 and curated a major Evans exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1975. Evans died in 1987, leaving more than 400 artworks to the St. Johns Museum of Art (now the Cameron Museum of Art) in Wilmington.
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