#minnie evans

[nobrashfestivity]

Minnie Evans, Angels and Demons, 1975, The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL, USA. Museum’s Website.

[thesobsister]

Minnie Evans, [Untitled]

[bobbole]

Minnie Evans

[lisamarie-vee]

[padawan-historian]

The South is a place eternally haunted by sin and seeking salvation, an element of our communal character that often emerges in the work of our artists, whether by conscious intent or like sweat beading on the brow of a guilty man. Patterson Hood, one of my favorite songwriters, wrote, “There’s a lot of bad wood underneath the veneer,” and we Southerners live with that truth, particularly since, as William Faulkner famously wrote in Requiem for a Nun, “The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

Read the article: Minnie Evans and the Soul of Wilmington

[quo-usque-tandem]

Untitled by Minnie Evans

[ant-soul]

If you need half an hour with a Angel.

[psikonauti]

Minnie Evans (African-American,1892 - 1987)

Untitled 

Oil, ink and gold paint on paper