Really free : the radical art of Nellie Mae Rowe / essays by Katherine Jentleson, Ruchi Mital, Destinee Filmore ; poem by Vanessa German.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowe, Nellie Mae, 1900-1982, artist.

Contributor:

Jentleson, Katherine, curator, writer of supplementary textual content.

Mital, Ruchi, writer of supplementary textual content.

Filmore, Destinee, writer of supplementary textual content.

german, vanessa, 1976- writer of supplementary textual content.

High Museum of Art, host institution, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rowe, Nellie Mae, 1900-1982.

Rowe, Nellie Mae.

Folk art--Georgia--20th century--Exhibitions.

Folk art.

Georgia.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

276 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 x 26 cm

Other Title:

Radical art of Nellie Mae Rowe

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, Georgia : High Museum of Art ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books, available through Artbook/D.A.P., 2021.

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

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

Notes:

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.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1636810284

9781636810287

OCLC:

1266642868