I Will Sea you Later When I get My Self Back To Geather

A large brown creature with human feet and a winged torso is surrounded by blood-red crayon-drawn plants and body parts. Text says, “I will see you later when I get myself back together.”

Object Details

Artist/Maker

Nellie Mae Rowe, American, 1900–1982

Date

1982

Medium

Crayon, pen, and pencil on paper

Dimensions

9 1/2 x 7 inches

Credit

Gift of Judith Alexander

Accession #

2003.178

Image Copyright

Rowe frequently included text in her work, sometimes incorporating it as a carefully designed pictorial element and other times as a caption or narrative explaining the action in a scene. She often wrote messages of spiritual praise, especially because she believed her artistic talent came from God. In some of her drawings from 1982, the year she passed away, she used her writing to embed messages of farewell.