This Worl is Not My Home
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Object Details
Artist/Maker
Nellie Mae Rowe, American, 1900–1982
Date
1979
Medium
Crayon, marker, colored pencil, and pencil on paper
Dimensions
16 3/4 x 19 5/8 inches
Credit
Gift of Judith Alexander
Accession #
2003.167
Image Copyright
© Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Description
Rowe approached the end of her life with spiritually inspired optimism. “I feel like I’m growing stronger because I’m serving the Lord, and I thank Him for everything. Letting me stay here this long, living down here on love and land, for this world is not my home. My home is on high and I’m going to reach it one day,” she said. She began to visualize this heavenly future especially in works from her final year of life in which she said goodbye quite explicitly.
