Untitled (Man's Face) - High Museum of Art

Untitled (Man's Face)

Nellie Mae Rowe

American, 1900–1982

Pink, textured fruit carton with a drawing of a distorted face, outlined in black crayon, that has a thick handlebar mustache and small red mouth shaped into an O.

Details

Title

Untitled (Man's Face)

Artist/Maker

Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982)

Date

before 1978

Medium

Crayon on cardboard fruit carton

Dimensions

Image/Sight: 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 1 inches (24.1 cm x 14 cm x 2.5 cm) Framed/Mounted: 13 x 9 1/2 x 2 inches (33 cm x 24.1 cm x 5.1 cm) Other (Plexi Box): 15 x 13 x 2 3/4 inches, (38.1 cm x 33 cm x 7 cm,)

Credit

Gift of Judith Alexander

Accession #

2002.235

On View

Currently not on view

Image Copyright

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

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