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Really free : the radical art of Nellie Mae Rowe
- Title
- Really free : the radical art of Nellie Mae Rowe / essays by Katherine Jentleson, Ruchi Mital, Destinee Filmore ; poem by Vanessa German.
- Author
- Rowe, Nellie Mae, 1900-1982
- Publication
- Atlanta, Georgia : High Museum of Art ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books, available through Artbook/D.A.P., 2021.
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- Description
- 276 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 29 x 26 cm
- Summary
- "During the last fifteen years of her life, Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982) created hundreds of drawings and welcomed visitors to her home, located on a busy thoroughfare just outside of Atlanta, that she called her 'Playhouse' and decorated with found-object installations, handmade dolls, and chewing-gum sculptures. Rowe created her first works as a child in rural Fayetteville, Georgia, but only found the time and space to reclaim her artistic practice in the late 1960s, following the deaths of her second husband and her longtime employer. Reproducing more than two hundred works from the High's leading collection of Rowe's work, this catalogue offers an unprecedented view of how Rowe cultivated her drawing practice, starting with colorful and at times simple sketches on found materials and moving toward her most celebrated highly complex compositions on paper of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Featuring contributions that examine Rowe's art and life from a variety of perspectives, Really Free is published on the occasion of the first major exhibition of Rowe's work in more than twenty years"--Back of book jacket
- Alternative Title
- Radical art of Nellie Mae Rowe
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- Published in conjunction with the exhibition Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe, organized by and held at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Sept. 3, 2021-Jan. 9, 2022.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Director's foreword / Rand Suffolk -- Curator's acknowledgments / Katherine Jentleson -- Really free / Vanessa German -- Born on the Fourth of July / Katherine Jentleson -- This world is not my own : a creative treatment of actuality / Ruchi Mital -- Won't you have a seat? : exploring chairs in the art of Nellie Mae Rowe / Destinee Filmore -- Plates -- Chronology
- Call Number
- NC139.R72
- ISBN
- 1636810284
- 9781636810287
- OCLC
- 1266642868
- on1266642868
- SCSB-14572998
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries