High Museum of Art
Atlanta, GA
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The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety-Nine
and a Half Won't Do
November 20, 1999 - February 26, 2000
The exhibition, at the The High Museum of Art Folk Art and Photography
Galleries, located at 133 Peachtree Street, at the corner of John Wesley
Dobbs Avenue in downtown Atlanta, features over 90 works created by local
self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982). Featured are colorful drawings
and collages, mixed media sculptures, chewing gum figures, and hand-sewn
dolls. As the first major, nationally traveling museum exhibition to explore
the full range of Rowe's talents, this show traces her development as an
artist beginning in the 1940's. (left: Peace, 1978, crayon
and pen on paper, Private collection)
Rowe, born in Fayetteville, Georgia, lived the last 50
years of her life in Vinings. After her second husband's 
death in
1948, she devoted most of her time to art. Her highly detailed and vividly
colored drawings include pictures of herself, friends, barnyard animals
and local personalities. Some of these drawings contain old adages and anecdotes,
which reflect Rowe's sense of humor as well as her abiding religious faith.
(right: Cow Jump Over the Mone, 1978, crayon, colored pencil
and pen on paper, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, Gift of Judith
Alexander)
The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't
Do is organized by the Museum of American Folk
Art, New York. The exhibition and catalog are made possible with the generous
support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Judith Rothschild
Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the LEF Foundation.
In Atlanta, generous support is provided by the Friends of Nellie Mae
Rowe.
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The exhibition, at the The High Museum of Art Folk Art and Photography
Galleries, located at 133 Peachtree Street, at the corner of John Wesley
Dobbs Avenue in downtown Atlanta, features over 90 works created by local
self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982). Featured are colorful drawings
and collages, mixed media sculptures, chewing gum figures, and hand-sewn
dolls. As the first major, nationally traveling museum exhibition to explore
the full range of Rowe's talents, this show traces her development as an
artist beginning in the 1940's. (left: Peace, 1978, crayon
and pen on paper, Private collection)