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| Title | : | The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe : Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.14 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1578061326 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-16 |
| Language | : | English |
Lee Kogan, director of the Folk Art Institute of the Museum of American Folk Art, unites the paintings and sculptures with a look at the artist's surroundings, practices, and culture. When painting and drawing on paper, Styrofoam, cardboard, and wood, she favored plain and colored pencils, ink and felt tip pens, and gouache. Sculpting, she gathered found objects, marbles, and glitter and fastened them with chewing gum. The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe is the most substantial gathering of her work to date. Here eighty full color and ten black and white images display the artist's extraordinary intuitive color sense and the vibrancy and variety of her work. Wertkin, Director of the Museum of American Folk Art, and a contextual essay by Atlanta-born Kinshasa Holman Conwill, director of the Studio Museum of Harlem. For Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982) the old Southern world of shotgun houses, small churches, flowers, trees, and farm animals shined in her drawings, paintings, and sculpture. Nellie Mae Rowe lived her entire life on the rural fringes of Atlanta in Fayetteville and Vinings, Georgia. From then until her death, her dreams and memories salved her loneliness with images of a bygone day, and these she made into art. In these color-saturated works, there is an exuberant and idiosyncratic self-expression. Jewelry, lace, wigs, felt hats, and eye-glasses enhanced her cloth dolls. She used whatever materials were at hand. She was one of nine daughters of a former slave wh
She was one of nine daughters of a former slave who worked as a farmer, a blacksmith, and a basket weaver. Rowe, Nellie Mae lived her entire life on the rural fringes of Atlanta in Vinings, Georgia. . Kogan, Lee, director of the Folk Art Institute of the Museum of American Folk Art, unites the paintings and sculptures with a look at the artist's surroundings, practices, and culture
From the Inside Flap Memory paintings of the rural South by the daughter of a former slave
"Nellie May Rowe: conceptual art and transcendental imagery" according to A Customer. In January I visited New York City for a few days. One night my friend and I happened to walk past the Museum Of American Folk Art, and saw something going on inside that involved wine and cheese. We took the bait, paid our admission/donation and joined the tour of the exhibit, which to our tremendous enjoyment, was the artwork of Nellie May Rowe,. The tour was given by the author of this book, Lee Kogan. Not only was this most definitely one of the best things I ever did on the spur of the moment, but the book is one of the nicest things I ever purchased on impulse. Nellie Ma. Happy BootGirl said Georgia artist. Nellie Mae Rowe deserves greater recognition.
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