Details

Title

Untitled (Composition with Two Yellow Scalloped Forms)

Artist/Maker

Minnie Evans (American, 1892–1987)

Date

1944

Medium

Crayon, ink, and graphite on paper

Dimensions

13 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches

Credit

T. Marshall Hahn Collection

Accession #

1997.3

On View

Currently not on view

Rather than resting in a vase, Minnie Evans’s flowers twine through meditative mandalas that speak to the harmony between plant, human, and superhuman life forms. Evans, who experienced both religious visions and vivid dreams throughout most of her life, began making art at age forty-three after one such visionary experience compelled her to take up drawing. She filled her kaleidoscopic artworks with religious symbolism as well as lush flora, perhaps inspired by her day job working at the Airlie Estate, which later became one of the most famous gardens in North Carolina.

Image Copyright

© Family of Minnie Evans

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