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Nellie Mae Rowe (July 4, 1900 – October 18, 1982) was an African-American artist from Fayette County, Georgia. Although she is best known today for her colorful works on paper, Rowe worked across mediums, creating drawings, collages , altered photographs, hand-sewn dolls, home installations and sculptural environments.
- Painting, Photography, Collage, Sculpture
- American
- Contemporary Art
- July 4, 1900, Fayette County, Georgia
Biography. Nellie Mae Rowe was born in Georgia, in the last year of the nineteenth century—to a once-enslaved father and mother born the year of Emancipation. Rowe labored as a child, married young, was widowed twice, and worked much of her adult life as a uniformed “domestic” in white households. Although her early life was shaped by ...
- July 4, 1900
- October 18, 1982
Sep 2, 2022 · Nellie Mae Rowe Levels the Wall Between Insider and Outsider Art - The New York Times. The artist has been a major — if underrecognized — American talent. But the biggest look yet at her...
- Roberta Smith
Mar 9, 2023 · Art History. A New Documentary on Nellie Mae Rowe Explores the Life and Times of the Self-Taught Artist Who Made Art Against All Odds. The film also recreates the artist's home and greatest masterpiece, her 'Playhouse,' with a scale model. Animated Nellie Mae Rowe in her home known as the “playhouse” in This World Is Not My Own.
Jun 10, 2005 · Nellie Mae Rowe. A creative and resourceful self-taught artist, Nellie Mae Rowe gained national recognition for her work during the last decade of her life. Long before her…
Sep 3, 2021 · Based on the High’s leading collection of Rowe’s art, Really Free is the first major exhibition of her work in more than twenty years and the first to consider her practice as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the post-civil rights-era South.
This digital publication platform builds on the High Museum of Art’s 2021–2022 exhibition and publication, Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe. Experience the exhibition and related programming, learn more about Rowe’s life and artworks, and explore multimedia content from the exhibition’s curator and other catalogue ...
