1960
graphite
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1960 graphite by Minnie Evans, depicting Kalighat, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a tangle of faces, eyes, and swirling lines in black ink on white paper. Some shapes look like masks or flowers, others like floating heads with big, staring eyes. Evans worked as a gatekeeper at an North Carolina estate, drawing in spare moments. She said the images came to her in dreams—no training, just what she called “God’s gift.” The crowded, busy page feels like a private vision spilling out fast. To see more of her dreamlike drawings, look up the artist Minnie Evans.
Minnie Eva Evans was an African-American artist who worked in the United States from the 1940s to the 1980s.
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