Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

This World is Up Side down

A brown human with a disproportionately large head adorned in a flowing orange and pink headdress walks off the page; “This World is Up Side down” is written above.

Object Details

Artist/Maker

Nellie Mae Rowe, American, 1900–1982

Date

1981

Medium

Crayon and pencil on paper

Dimensions

Image/Sight: 16 x 12 inches (40.6 cm x 30.5 cm) Framed/Mounted: 25 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches (64.1 cm x 54 cm x 3.2 cm)

Credit

Gift of Judith Alexander

Accession #

2003.174

Image Copyright

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