Nellie Mae Rowe, Vinings, Georgia
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Object Details
Artist/Maker
Melinda Blauvelt, American, born 1949
Date
1971, printed 2021
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Framed/Mounted: 23 1/4 x 29 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches (59.1 cm x 74.3 cm x 3.2 cm)
Image/Sight: 21 3/4 x 14 5/8 inches (55.2 cm x 37.1 cm)
Credit
Gift of the artist
Accession #
2021.70
Image Copyright
© Melinda Blauvelt
Description
A connection to nature dominated Rowe’s childhood, as the type of task she was assigned on the farm was dictated by seasons and weather. She reclaimed that connection by tending to the garden of her Playhouse, which was filled with flowering plants like the mulberry tree that she enjoys in this drawing. After 1969, the completion of I-285 drastically changed her surroundings. The space that she made for nature to grow densely, as seen in the photograph by Melinda Blauvelt, was all the more meaningful against the backdrop of the rapidly gentrifying suburb where she lived.
