Painting Dreams: Minnie Evans, Visionary Artist

by Mary E. Lyons

Book Overview

Minnie Evans was forty-three years old when she began to draw pictures based on her strange dreams and waking visions: giant birds, biblical figures, and other fantastic images. This is her story of a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039572032X
• ISBN13: 9780395720325
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 47 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Art and Artist well served

Painting Dreams: Minnie Evans, Visionary Artist is an excellent book for children - not to be sterotyped because of its place in the African-American artisan series. I would love to have the book contain more of Evans art but would not give up the text. Mary Lyons has conveyed the social difficulties of being African-American in the early twentieth century not by "preaching" but by letting the story speak for itself. The result is a book that is appealing both for its art and for its social conscience.