Untitled (Orange Dog and Blue-Coated Person)
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Untitled (Orange Dog and Blue-Coated Person)
Artwork Details
Artist/Maker
Nellie Mae Rowe
American, 1900–1982
American, 1900–1982
Date
1980
Medium
Crayon and pencil on paper
Accession #
2003.223
Dimensions
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Location
Currently Out on Loan
Description
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.
Credit
Gift of Judith AlexanderImage Copyright
© Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.