Mixed media on paper, likely 1970s, signed in pencil at lower right margin, mounted on archival paper, framed under glass.

Sheet size 15 x 22 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 23 1/4 x 30 3/4 in.

Minnie Evans was the longtime gatekeeper at Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, North Carolina. A self-taught artist, her paintings are in numerous prominent collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and many more.

Some minor original marring and roughness to margins; small puncture to top center margin; not examined out of the frame.

$5,000 - 7,000