Jane Ninas
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Jane Smith Ninas Evans Sargeant (1913–2005)[1][2] was an American painter. She was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.[1] She studied art at Newcomb College in New Orleans.[3] She worked for the Federal Art Project in Louisiana, which was part of the New Deal.[3][4] Her work was included in the 1936 exhibition New Horizons in American Art (as Jane Ninas) at the Museum of Modern Art.[5] She was married several times including marriage to the painter Paul Ninas[6][7][8] and the photographer Walker Evans.[3][8][9][10] Evans' created several series of portraits of her, including Untitled, (Jane Ninas) (1935),[11] Five 35mm Film Frames: Jane Ninas (1941),[12] 9 Portraits of Jane Smith Evans (1952),[13] and Jane Smith Evans (1953).[14]
In 1991 The Historic New Orleans Collection held an exhibition Walker Evans and Jane Ninas in New Orleans, 1935-1936 which included her paintings and his photographs.[3][6][7]
