God is Not Dead. You Just Do Your Best - High Museum of Art

God is Not Dead. You Just Do Your Best

Nellie Mae Rowe

American, 1900–1982

Cursive handwriting in bright blue and lime green: “God is not dead you just do your best and he will do the rest Just try him he is all Right.”

Details

Title

God is Not Dead. You Just Do Your Best

Artist/Maker

Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982)

Date

1974–1978

Medium

Crayon and pencil on paper

Dimensions

11 x 8 1/2 inches

Credit

Gift of Judith Alexander

Accession #

2003.298

Location

Currently not on view

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.

Image Copyright

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

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