Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

 

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

 

I Run into a net oh Boy


A green foxlike creature walks on a large striped and spiraling path, which veers upward, blocking the creature; the text below reads, “I Run into a net oh Boy.”

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Object Details


Artist/Maker

Nellie Mae Rowe, American, 1900–1982

Date

1982

Medium

Crayon and pencil on board

Dimensions

10 x 13 1/2 inches

Credit

Gift of Judith Alexander

Accession #

2003.180

Image Copyright

© Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

Description

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.