Central to Their Lives

Born in Long Creek, North Carolina, Minnie Evans embraced her creative sensibility late in life, when in 1935 a divine voice told her to “draw or die.” From that moment …

The only child of a prominent Mississippi family, Kate Freeman Clark negotiated the precarious balance between societal mores of the day and an undeniable talent. Escorted by her highly protective …

A sensitive aesthete with an eccentric personal style, Elisabeth Chant wore voluminous dresses made with brightly colored and embellished fabrics. In 1922, at the age of fifty-seven, the well-traveled Chant …

One of the first artists from Mississippi to embrace modernism, Dusti Bongé began experimenting with Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s. Associates in New York connected Bongé with the most progressive …

Named by Life magazine as one of the leading American women artists at mid-century, Nell Blaine devoted her prolific career to the exploration of art, seamlessly moving between naturalism and …