Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

1999, The High Museum of Art, Member’s Evening invitation

Members Evening invitation for the exhibition Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do. Features Rowe's artwork titled Nellie Mae Making It to Church Barefoot. A pair of feet are on a green field beneath a pink building with a red and black spire. A pointy-nosed animal with brown fur and a pink ear stands between the disembodied pair of feet.

Members Evening invitation for the exhibition Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do for its showing at the High Museum of Art. The invitation lists the evening program for the December 2 event at the Folk Art and Photography Galleries at the Georgia-Pacific Center, Downtown Atlanta.

Members Evening invitation for Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do at the High Museum of Art, 1999. Courtesy of the Nellie Mae Rowe Archive, High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

On front: Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982), Nellie Mae Making It to Church Barefoot, 1978, crayon and pencil on paper, 19 1/4 x 24 inches, private collection.