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Untitled (Nellie Smelling Tree)

Nellie Mae Rowe

American, 1900–1982

A brown-skinned person wearing a lime-green sweater sniffs a tree with closed eyes; a white doglike creature stands beside her; four birds eat from plants while perched in the tree’s foliage.

Details

Title

Untitled (Nellie Smelling Tree)

Artist/Maker

Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982)

Date

1982

Medium

Crayon, marker, pencil, and pen on paper

Dimensions

16 1/2 x 13 5/8 inches

Credit

Gift of Beverly Stephens

Accession #

2022.117

On View

Currently not on view

Image Copyright

© Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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