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

On View

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.