Object Details
- Artist
- Minnie Evans, born Long Creek, NC 1892-died Wilmington, NC 1987
- Gallery Label
- Minnie Evans lived most of her life in North Carolina. At seventeen, she found work as a gatekeeper in the lush gardens of a coastal estate, Airlie-on-Sound, which became a public park in 1949. Evans felt inspired by God to celebrate his resplendent creations with art. In free moments, she drew or painted floral scenes with goddess-like figures in their midst. In Airlie Oak, Evans honored an immense 400-year-old tree at Airlie; a live oak over twenty-feet-wide at the base. She created this bas-relief from bits of dried paint, made malleable with turpentine and added cumulatively over time, as she explained: "I just kept on doing that until I got this big old tree."
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Josh Feldstein
- 1954
- Object number
- 2017.35.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting-Mixed Media
- Medium
- oil paint on wood
- Dimensions
- 14 × 18 × 2 in. (35.6 × 45.7 × 5.1 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1st Floor, West Wing
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Landscape\tree\oak tree
- Object\furniture\bench
- Record ID
- saam_2017.35.2
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7638f2961-6b21-4078-b37c-1e267e4c6c85
