Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

Lod Help Me Plese

The inside of a shoebox lid is colored yellow with text reading “Lord Help Me Please” at the top; a purple handlike shape with orange fingernails is at the bottom.

Object Details

Artist/Maker

Nellie Mae Rowe, American, 1900–1982

Date

1981

Medium

Crayon and pencil on shoebox lid

Dimensions

10 1/4 x 6 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches

Credit

Gift of Judith Alexander

Accession #

2003.165

Image Copyright

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