God is not Dead - High Museum of Art

God is not Dead

Nellie Mae Rowe

American, 1900–1982

Left: dark hand with pink fingernails and bracelets resting above orange picture frame and writing of artist’s name, numbers 4358742 and date 1971; Right: purple-pink “God is Not Dead” with a flower to the right of the word “Not.”

Details

Title

God is not Dead

Artist/Maker

Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982)

Date

1971

Medium

Crayon and pencil on corrugated cardboard

Dimensions

Image/Sight: 12 1/2 x 21 inches (31.8 cm x 53.3 cm) Framed/Mounted: 21 1/2 x 30 x 1 1/2 inches (54.6 cm x 76.2 cm x 3.8 cm)

Credit

Gift of Judith Alexander

Accession #

2002.241

On View

Currently not on view

Image Copyright

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

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