Untitled1978Sheet: 18 x 20 " (45.7 x 50.8 cm)
Frame: 25 x 27 1/4 x 1 1/2 " (63.5 x 69.2 x 3.8 cm)Felt-tip marker and pencil on paper mounted to foam core Gift of Judith Alexander1997.5.101538172378Nellie Mae RoweDrawings© Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New Yorklower right: 'Nellie Mae Rowe / 1978' Nellie in Her Yard Nellie in Her Yard Nellie in Her YardViningsViningsUnited StatesGeorgiaWorks on PaperViningsdrawing
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgMany of Nellie Mae Rowe’s drawings, collages, altered photographs, and hand-sewn dolls are autobiographical, especially those executed in the last years of her life. In this and several other drawings, Rowe portrayed herself seated outside her modest home in Vinings, Georgia, surrounded by the profusion of flowers, shrubs, and fruit trees she nurtured on her property. Rowe’s interior and exterior environment—her “playhouse,” as she called it—was a physical space, but it also took on metaphorical characteristics as a source of her creativity. The playhouse inspired her to create. “I’m going back to be a child again,” she told visitors, but at the core of this idea was “serious” play, imbued with the freedom to create. Nellie in Her Yard Nellie in Her Yard Nellie in Her Yard Nellie in Her Yard19781978 1997 5 1 drawing
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgMany of Nellie Mae Rowe’s drawings, collages, altered photographs, and hand-sewn dolls are autobiographical, especially those executed in the last years of her life. In this and several other drawings, Rowe portrayed herself seated outside her modest home in Vinings, Georgia, surrounded by the profusion of flowers, shrubs, and fruit trees she nurtured on her property. Rowe’s interior and exterior environment—her “playhouse,” as she called it—was a physical space, but it also took on metaphorical characteristics as a source of her creativity. The playhouse inspired her to create. “I’m going back to be a child again,” she told visitors, but at the core of this idea was “serious” play, imbued with the freedom to create.