The Lion of Judah

Artist Minnie Evans American, 1892–1987

DateJanuary 18, 1960

MediumColored pencil on paper

Dimensions11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (29.8 x 22.2 cm)

ClassificationsDrawings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. McCollough and the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object number87.1

On View

Not on view

Provenance
Published ReferencesBarbara Rogers, Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, NC (January 19, 1969).

The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC (January 30, 1983).

The News and Observer, Raleigh, NC (December 20, 1987).

North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1987-88), 12, illus. (b-w) 11.

Nina Howell Starr, Conversations with Minnie Evans, transcribed from Taped Interviews, 1960's-1973.

Max Halperen, "Painter of dreams," Raleigh: The News and Observer, What's Up insert (February 28, 2003), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 38.

The Dream World of Minnie Evans (exhibition catalogue) (Durham: North Carolina Central University Art Museum, 2003), cat. no. 16, illus. (color) 34.

Obsidian III 4, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2002), illus. (b-w) 7.

Kinea White Epps, "Black artist shared God's dreamscape," Raleigh: The News and Observer (February 27, 2006), illus. (color) 1B.

"Sketching Animals," in Scholastic Art 39, no. 4 (February 2009), illus. (color) 5.

Graciela García, Arte outsider: La pulsión creativa al desnudo (Barcelona and Buenos Aires: Sans Soleil Ediciones, 2015), illus. (color) 67, fig. 2-12.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Changing Selections Gallery, "Recent Acquisitions: The Rainbow Colors of Minnie Evans," February 2-May 22, 1988.

Greenville, NC, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, "The Dream Realm of Minnie Evans," May 13-August 6, 1993.

Durham, NC, North Carolina Central University Art Museum, "The Dream World of Minnie Evans," February 16-April 18, 2003, cat. no. 16, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art,"The Harriet Jacobs Project," March 18-March 25, 2024.
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