You May Be in heaven a half a hour
![Light blue background with cursive writing: “You May be in heaven a half a hour before the devee [??] no you are there prase God” with small purple cross.](https://link.rowe.high.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/db_photod4112u928411282003.297YouMayBeinHeavenaHalfaHourRGB_o2-797x1024.jpg)
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Object Details
Artist/Maker
Nellie Mae Rowe, American, 1900–1982
Date
1978
Medium
Crayon and pencil on paper
Dimensions
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Credit
Gift of Judith Alexander
Accession #
2003.297
Image Copyright
© Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Description
Rowe frequently included text in her work, sometimes incorporating it as a carefully designed pictorial element and other times as a caption or narrative explaining the action in a scene. She often wrote messages of spiritual praise, especially because she believed her artistic talent came from God. In some of her drawings from 1982, the year she passed away, she used her writing to embed messages of farewell.