Untitled (Orange Dog and Blue-Coated Person)
Nellie Mae Rowe
American, 1900–1982
Details
Title
Untitled (Orange Dog and Blue-Coated Person)
Artist/Maker
Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982)
Date
1980
Medium
Crayon and pencil on paper
Dimensions
32 x 36 inches
Credit
Gift of Judith Alexander
Accession #
2003.223
Location
Currently not on view
By the time she made this work, Rowe had developed a sophisticated mastery of color and compositional structure. She gained access to very large paper through Judith Alexander, the Atlanta gallerist who began representing Rowe in 1978 and who gave the High the vast majority of its Rowe collection. The dapper blue figure seems to coax the parade of converging dreamlike forms in this drawing, including a sphinxlike yellow creature who follows the central, orange-bodied dog carrying a turban-wearing figure on his back.
Image Copyright
© Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.