Work of late Wilmington artist getting attention with 2 touring shows

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The work of late Wilmington artist Minnie Evans is featured in two separate national exhibitions.

Evans, a self-taught artist, worked at Wilmington's Airlie Gardens and was inspired by its natural beauty.

One exhibition, "The Visionary Art of Minnie Evans," is currently at the Boston Museum of Fine Art.

A larger exhibition will open at Atlanta's High Museum of Art before traveling to New York's Whitney Museum.

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. In the original version, the birth year for Minnie Evans was incorrect.)

Some five decades after a major gallery show introduced her captivating and mysterious drawings to the New York City art world, the work of a late Wilmington artist is seeing a resurgence of national attention, w