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From 14 November 2025 to 19 April 2026, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta will present the exhibition ‘The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans’. The show is dedicated to the extraordinary work of American artist Minnie Evans (1892–1987), whose visionary drawings full of fantastic forms and symbolism are among the most significant examples of self-taught art of the 20th century. With over 100 works from public and private collections, the exhibition offers a comprehensive insight into the life and work of this pioneering African American artist before it moves to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in the summer of 2026.
Minnie Evans once described her drawings, filled with human, plant and animal forms, as works from ‘the lost world’ – an allusion to ‘the nations destroyed before the Flood’. After her grandmother died in 1934 and the visions that had accompanied her since childhood grew in intensity, Evans created an extensive, acclaimed oeuvre. In 1975, she was one of the first Black artists to be honoured with a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Although she received great recognition during her lifetime, there has been no major exhibition of her work since the 1990s.
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Image above: Minnie Evans (American, 1892–1987), Designs, Wrightsville Beach, 1968, oil, crayon, and pencil on paper and canvas, Carolina Art Association/the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina; museum purchase with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts Living Artist Fund. © The Estate of Minnie Evans.
