Mixed media on US Coast Guard stationary, circa 1944-1945, signed at lower right, float mounted and framed under Plexiglass, retaining a a Fidler's Gallery & Framing of Wilmington label to the verso.

Sheet size 9 1/2 x 7 in.; Frame dimensions 20 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.

Minnie Evans was the longtime gatekeeper at Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, North Carolina. A self-taught artist, her paintings are in numerous prominent collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia, the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and many more.

Light toning and some soft cockling to sheet; not examined out of the frame.