 Evans created "one of the most powerful works of art " which was a self-portrait on the cover of a scrapbook in 1981.Evans died in Wilmington, North Carolina on December 16, 1987 at age 95, leaving more than 400 artworks to the St. Johns Museum of Art (now the Cameron Art Museum) in Wilmington.After Evans's death, artist Virginia Wright-Frierson designed and built the "Minnie Evans Bottle Chapel" at Airlie Gardens in her memory.