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Untitled (Star Woman)

Nellie Mae Rowe

American, 1900–1982

Crayon drawing of a figure with a blue neck and blue-outlined, eight-sided star (octogram), colored in orange with blue closed eyes, nose, and eyebrows and a red smiling mouth.

Details

Title

Untitled (Star Woman)

Artist/Maker

Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982)

Date

1968–1982

Medium

Crayon and pencil on paper

Dimensions

11 x 8 1/2 inches

Credit

Purchase with funds from T. Marshall Hahn and Lucinda W. Bunnen for the Nasisse Collection

Accession #

1993.56

On View

Currently not on view

Image Copyright

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

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