MINNIE EVANS

By the 1960s, Evans’s work had begun to garner national recognition. After small gallery exhibitions in Wilmington and New York, she was profiled in Newsweek in 1969. Group exhibitions at museums followed shortly thereafter, leading to a one-person exhibition at the Whitney in 1975. More than five decades later, this retrospective offers an opportunity to experience the visionary merging of the everyday and the divine that runs through Evans’s work.

The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and curated by Katherine Jentleson, the High Museum’s Senior Curator of American Art and Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art. The presentation at the Whitney Museum of American Art is organized by Barbara Haskell, Curator, with Caroline Webb, Curatorial Assistant.

Major support for The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is provided by the Barbara Haskell American Fellows Legacy Fund and the Kapadia Equity Fund.