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Nellie Mae Rowe, Untitled (The Angel and the Devil s Boot), 1978 High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta today announced a gift of 47 paintings, drawings and sculptures by folk and self-taught Southern artists from a local collecting couple, Harvie and Charles (Chuck) Abney. The donation includes 17 works by the African American artist Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-82), known for vivid colourful drawings brimming with human figures, animals, plants and decorative patterns.
The High says the Rowe drawings gifted by the Abneys will significantly bolster the museum’s voluminous holdings of works by the artist, who also crafted found-object installations, handmade dolls and chewing-gum sculptures in her home. The museum now owns or will inherit more than 200 of Rowe’s drawings and mixed-media sculptures and is planning the exhibition
High Museum Receives Major Gift of Self-Taught Art
April 08, 2021 12:36
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Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900â1982), Untitled (Dandy), 1978-1982, crayon and pencil on paper, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, gift of Harvie and Charles Abney, 2021.40.
The High Museum of Art continues to expand its unparalleled collection of American self-taught art with a gift of 47 works by Southern self-taught artists from Atlanta collectors Harvie and Charles (âChuckâ) Abney. The paintings, sculptures and drawings, which will be followed by 26 works to be bequeathed to the High, are by more than a dozen of the most widely celebrated self-taught artists, including Lonnie Holley, Howard Finster, Ronald Lockett and Minnie Evans. The gift also includes one of the largest and finest private collections of work by Atlanta artist Nellie Mae Rowe, which will strengthen the Museumâs already unmatched holdings of her work.