An introduction to the life of Minnie Evans explains how she began, at age forty-three, to draw the strange figures that had haunted her dreams all her life and describes the restrictions that were placed upon her ambitions as an African-American artist.
The MFA Boston's “The Visionary Art of Minnie Evans” exhibition features 16 multimedia works by Evans—all on loan from the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington—and contextualizes them with handwritten letters, postcards, and other ephemera to illuminate the artist’s complex and profoundly spiritual relationship to nature in her hometown.
