Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

 

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

 

Detail from Untitled (DeMura Shoebox Collage)

Photograph of a dresser half covered with decorations. A chewing gum sculpture of a crouching animal stands at the front of the dresser, with another sculpture of a figure covered in multi-colored balls. A drawn portrait of a woman against a red background is placed to the right behind a stuffed animal and boot-shaped toy on wheels.

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Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982), Untitled (DeMura Shoebox Collage) (detail), before 1978, color photographs on flattened shoebox
18 1/2 x 13 inches, gift of Judith Alexander, 2003.234. © Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.