Untitled (DeMura Shoebox Collage)
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Untitled (DeMura Shoebox Collage)
Artwork Details
Artist/Maker
Nellie Mae Rowe
American, 1900–1982
American, 1900–1982
Date
before 1978
Medium
Color photographs on flattened shoebox
Accession #
2003.234
Dimensions
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Location
Currently Out on Loan
Description
Rowe used a flattened shoebox as the backdrop for a display of casual snapshots that an unidentified visitor took of the decorated interior and exterior of her home, which she called her Playhouse. The shoebox’s design sets off the visual of the patterned textiles and objects that Rowe, seen in the middle-left image, spread and hung throughout her space. In the bottom-left photograph, two of her sculptures made from chewing gum are visible, including a mustachioed cat much like Untitled (Chewing-Gum Sculpture) on view here.
Credit
Gift of Judith AlexanderImage Copyright
© Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.