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Minnie Evans' Art Exhibition Opens at High Museum

1/30/2026

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The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta through April 19, 2026, before moving to the Whitney in New York.
The exhibition features over 100 of Minnie Evans's vibrant crayon drawings created from the 1930s through her death in 1987.
Evans was self-taught and earned a Whitney solo show in 1975 as one of the first Black artists to do so.

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The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta through April 19, 2026, before moving to the Whitney in New York.
The exhibition features over 100 of Minnie Evans's vibrant crayon drawings created from the 1930s through her death in 1987.
Evans was self-taught and earned a Whitney solo show in 1975 as one of the first Black artists to do so.