Explore CollectionsFolk and Self-Taught ArtUntitled (Woman with Tree)

Untitled (Woman with Tree)

Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982)

Standing female figure with orange skin, face turned to the right, and crosshatched dress and hat in red, graphite, and white; two trees in squiggled blue lines behind her.

Details

Title

Untitled (Woman with Tree)

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

Gift of Andy Nasisse for the Nasisse Collection

Accession #

1993.54

Location

Currently not on view

Image Copyright

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

More from this Artist

A gray and white sheep drawn on white background, vertical stripes across body, and two sloped ears, in boomerang shape, with two horns.

Untitled (Sheep)

Nellie Mae Rowe

Light cardboard with drawn, leaping woman in lime green and red leotard on the left; a red cross, small chair, and large tree with red buds on the right.

Untitled (Leaping Majorette)

Nellie Mae Rowe

A disproportionately large red bird eats from a gray tree against a yellow background; a small house and two animals are positioned on either side of the tree.

Untitled (Red Bird in Tree)

Nellie Mae Rowe

A woman wearing a turquoise dress and gloves stands facing profile and clapping on a blue stage while a speckled creature looks up at her. They are framed by purple and green curtains.

Untitled (Sketchbook)

Nellie Mae Rowe

An orange foot with dark pink toenails outlined in blue, bordered by scalloped blue and red lines and crayon blue framing; “Nellie Mae Rowe 1978” at bottom.

Untitled (Foot)

Nellie Mae Rowe

A large blue plane with the number 5 and the words “USA Plain, Blue Angel” on it flies above several figures and a smaller, brown plane with the number 7 on it, all against a yellow background. Rowe’s signature contains the words, “I love God.”

Blue Angell

Nellie Mae Rowe

Crayon drawing of a bright blue, split-tail fish with a split tail, against an orange background with red flora details, and a light red bird diving toward fish.

Untitled (Light Blue Fish)

Nellie Mae Rowe

Drawing of gray, V-shaped tree with dark red area that various black and white creatures sit on; four birds—red, magenta, gray, cerulean—fly around tree.

Untitled (Gray Tree)

Nellie Mae Rowe

A person with their head tilted back and mouth open holds a large pink drum, surrounded by several numbers and ink drawings of plants.

Untitled (Girl with Drum)

Nellie Mae Rowe