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CELESTINE WARE-WBAI
3-5-1971

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MINNIE EVANS
one for this gift He wouldn't have gave it to me. 

C.W. What is The Lost World of Minnie Evans?

M.E. Say what?

C.W. What is The Lost World of Minnie Evans? The Lost World?

M.E. The Lost World. Now I don't know 'bout that. When I has the first exhibition here in New York in Miss Starr's church, the Church of Epithany, a Mr. Parker of Pratt University over in Brooklyn he named those pictures because they didn't have any name or anything to it. So he named them The Lost World. 

C.W. Now I had an idea that one reason that he had that you said your painting came to you from the nations before the Flood. Did you say that?

M.E. Yes, I said that. 

C.W. Now, what did you mean? Tell me the story behind that. 

M.E. It mean that because of the dreams I dreampt, of them. I have had lots of dreams that I never interpreted could ever get that these pictures, these things was given to me before the Flood before the world. You know before this generations of the world and now they were given to me. These paintings God gave them to me. It is things because they have been destroyed. (C.W. Yes). Nations have been destroyed and a lot of this pictures that God has given me has brought back from different nations but I don't know what nations. I would love to know because we knew according to the Bible there is thousands of nations that's been destroyed and nobody knew anything about them. 

C.W. Right, because people have had a lot of trouble and are trying to figure out how your paintings could reflect Klee. They see Klee in your paintings. They see Rousseau. They see Bosch. They see 15th century paintings. They see Indian art. They see Tibetan art. They see art from all over the world in your paintings and yet you have never had any formal instructions. It is really amazing how all of this came together in you. Could you tell me one of your dreams?