Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

 

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

 

My house is Clean Enought To Be helty and it Durty Enought To Be happy


A scene depicts several animals and human figures of various colors and sizes; text above the scene across a pink background reads, “My house is Clean Enough to Be Healthy and it Durty Enough To Be happy.”

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Object Details


Artist/Maker

Nellie Mae Rowe, American, 1900–1982

Date

1978–1982

Medium

Crayon, colored pencil, pen, and pencil on paper

Dimensions

Image/Sight: 18 x 24 inches (45.7 cm x 61 cm) Framed/Mounted: 32 3/4 x 38 1/8 x 1 inches (83.2 cm x 96.8 cm x 2.5 cm)

Credit

Gift of Harvie and Charles Abney

Accession #

2021.34

Image Copyright

© Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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