My house is Clean Enought to Be healty and it dirty Enought to Be happy
Nellie Mae Rowe
American, 1900–1982
Details
Title
My house is Clean Enought to Be healty and it dirty Enought to Be happy
Artist/Maker
Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982)
Date
1978–1982
Medium
Crayon and pencil on paper
Dimensions
18 x 24 inches
Credit
Gift of Judith Alexander
Accession #
2003.146
Location
Currently not on view
“I kept house long enough, I don’t want to be bothered by nobody ’cept self,” was how Rowe put her decision not to marry for a third time nor to seek further employment as a domestic worker. She got a kick out of household goods that cleverly and joyfully articulated the easing of domestic duties, like a napkin she saw at her niece’s that bore the phrase that is the title of this work.
Image Copyright
© Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.