Eva Dandridge (Gabrielle Union) developed a sense
of responsibility
early on in life, when after the
death of her parents she was left to care for her three younger
sisters, Kareenah (Essence Atkins), Bethany (Robinne Lee), and Jacqui (Meagan Good).
The quintessential Bohemian, she spent more than half a century, from her
early days as a WPA artist living in the heart
of the Village, through her Whitney retrospective in 1974, until her
death ten years later, painting, often in near - obscurity, an extraordinarily diverse population — from young black
sisters in Harlem to the elderly Jewish twin artists, Raphael and Moses Soyer, to Meyer Schapiro and Linus Pauling, to the American Communist Party chairman Gus Hall — creating an indelible portrait
of 20th century America.