Untitled (Boy with Blue Hat)1978Sheet: 12 x 9 " (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Frame: 14 1/8 x 11 1/8 x 3/4 " (35.9 x 28.3 x 1.9 cm)Crayon and pen on paperGift of Estelle Friedman1985.10.10(including construction) Figure of boy with oversized head standing with hands on hips and legs apart,face,arms and neck colored purple over red. Figure is wearing heart-shaped blue hat with red on top and stripes on either side,full forehead cleft by point of heart; blue jeans and green short sleeved shirt with red and dark stripe at cuff, watch on (proper) right wrist. Face has red circle (proper) right side of forehead, open mouth with white teeth, eyes heavily outlined in black with irises and ears scratched through crayon.Figure and background patterned in ball-point pen and colored heavily with crayons.ULQ: red and blue stripes from corner to figure crossed with looped strokes in pen. Stripes of purple, red and blue and area of green and orange.URQ: similar treatment with stripes running diagonally corner to corner.LLQ:pen lines forming continuous loops ending in irregular and pendant border.LRQ:Three heads of decreasing size. Frame: In contemporary gold tone metal frame, under plexiglass and backed with cardboard.152475374Nellie Mae RoweDrawings© Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New Yorkin pen lower right: '1978'label verso: 'Luise Ross / 162 w. 56 Street New York, NY 10019. Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-83)/Untitled Boy With Blue Hat, 1978/crayon, pen/paper, 12 x 9'in pen lower right: 'Nellie Mae Rowe' ViningsViningsUnited StatesGeorgiaWorks on PaperVinings
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.orgDRAWINGNellie Mae Rowe was born in Fayette County, Georgia, the daughter of a blacksmith. Even as a chid she created her own environments, first tying dolls out of the week's laundry and, as an adult, creating sculptures and drawings in many media to decorate her small home in Vinings, Georgia. These several works are typical of her early drawing efforts in their use of a large central image.The backgrounds of increasing density and complexity, however, suggest that these drawings are transitional and closely allied to her later efforts.19781978 1985 10 1
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.orgDRAWINGNellie Mae Rowe was born in Fayette County, Georgia, the daughter of a blacksmith. Even as a chid she created her own environments, first tying dolls out of the week's laundry and, as an adult, creating sculptures and drawings in many media to decorate her small home in Vinings, Georgia. These several works are typical of her early drawing efforts in their use of a large central image.The backgrounds of increasing density and complexity, however, suggest that these drawings are transitional and closely allied to her later efforts.