Untitled (Judith Alexander Doll)
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Object Details
Artist/Maker
Nellie Mae Rowe, American, 1900–1982
Date
1978–1982
Medium
Cloth, fiber stuffing, glass, plastic, mother of pearl, wire, wig, pigment, and wood rocking chair
Dimensions
37 1/2 x 17 x 8 1/2 inches
Credit
Gift of Judith Alexander
Accession #
2001.6 a-b
Image Copyright
(c) Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Description
“I bet I wasn’t ten years old when I made my first doll,” Nellie Mae Rowe once said. “Sometimes when I ought to have been in the fields, I’d hide and go make dolls. I’d take up all the dirty clothes, tie them up, pack their heads full of soft stockings, and make eyes for them. I made some to look like people.” The year before she died, Rowe created this affectionate portrait of her close friend and art dealer, Judith Alexander.