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Vining, GA
Nellie Mae's Play House - Nellie Mae Rowe
1900–1982
Mixed media
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One of ten children born to a former slave, Nellie Mae Rowe enjoyed art as a child -- but it was not until after her second husband died in 1948 that she began to draw and to decorate her house in earnest.
Rowe worked in a wide variety of media, filling the trees in her Vinings, Georgia yard with chewing gum sculptures and peopling her two-room house with elaborate dolls she sewed and dressed. A deeply religious woman, she took great pride in her home, which she lovingly called her "Playhouse". Her most enduring works have been her colorful drawings, which incorporate fantasy and a rich imagination into everyday scenes. Rowe, who died in 1982, has been widely hailed as one of the most important artists of his century.
Considered one of "50 Classic Outsiders", Raw Vision Sourcebook, 2002"
Ginger Young Gallery: "Nellie Mae Rowe"
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Bibliography:
Museums
American Folk Art Museum, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
The Museum of American Folk Art in New York mounted a one-person exhibition of her work in 1999, entitled "Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do."
Reference
"The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe", Kogan, 1999
"Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980" by Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, published for the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1982.
"Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists" by Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, New York, 1990.
"Contemporary American Folk Art - A Collector's Guide" Chuck and Jan Rosenak, 1996
"Folk Art" Vol 23, No 4, 1998-9
"20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art" by Betty-Carol Sellen, Cynthia J. Johnson, Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York, 1993.
"Souls Grown Deep: African American vernacular Art of the South", Vol 1, Arnett, et al, 1995.
"Nellie Mae Rowe", exhibit catalog, 1996
"Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Environments" by Roger Manley and Mark Sloan, Aperture, New York, 1997.
"Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century", exhibit catalog, 1998.
Raw Vision Magazine: "Makin' a Way Outta No Way"
"Raw Vision", No 32, 2000.
"Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art—A guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources" by Betty-Carol Sellen with Cynthia J. Johnson, 2000.
"Let it Shine: Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection" by Lynne E. Spriggs, Joanne Cubbs, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Susan Mitchell Crawley, Michael E. Shapiro and Peter Harholdt, organized by the High Museum of Art, 2001.
"50 Classic Outsiders", Raw Vision Sourcebook, 2002"
"American Self-Taught Art: An Illustrated Analysis of 20th Century Artists and Trends with 1,319 Capsule Biographies" by Florence Laffal and Julius Laffal, 2003.
"Wos Up Man?" Selections from the Joseph D. and Janet M. Sheen Collection of Self-taught Art" Palmer Museum of Art, 2005.
Slotin Folk Art Auction Catalog, Masterpiece Sale, November 4, 2006 |
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