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 Nellie Mae Rowe in a blue dress and white kerchief on her hair standing next to a bed and rolling some paper in her hands. The walls around the bed are heavily decorated with photographs, dolls, beads, and other collectible items.

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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.