{"product_id":"really-free-the-radical-art-of-nellie-mae-rowe","title":"Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring the last fifteen years of her life, Nellie Mae Rowe lived on Paces Ferry Road, a major thoroughfare in Vinings, Georgia, and welcomed visitors to her “Playhouse,” which she decorated with found-object installations, handmade dolls, chewing-gum sculptures, and hundreds of drawings. Rowe created her first works as a child in rural Fayetteville, Georgia, but only found the time and space to reclaim her artistic practice in the late 1960s, following the deaths of her second husband and her longtime employer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book offers an unprecedented view of how Rowe cultivated her drawing practice late in life, starting with colorful and at times simple sketches on found materials and moving toward her most celebrated, highly complex compositions on paper. Through photographs and reconstructions of her Playhouse created for an experimental documentary on her life, this publication is also the first to juxtapose her drawings with her art environment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNellie Mae Rowe\u003c\/b\u003e (1900–82) grew up in rural Fayetteville, Georgia. When her \u003ci\u003ePlayhouse\u003c\/i\u003e became an Atlanta attraction, she began to exhibit her art outside of her home, beginning with \u003ci\u003eMissing Pieces: Georgia Folk Art, 1770–1976\u003c\/i\u003e, a traveling exhibition that brought attention to several Southern self-taught artists, including Rowe and Howard Finster. In 1982, the year she died, Rowe’s work received a new level of acclaim, as she was honored in a solo exhibition at Spelman College and included as one of three women artists in the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s landmark exhibition \u003cblack i=\"\" in=\"\" art=\"\" folk=\"\"\u003e.\u003c\/black\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"catanno\"\u003eBy Katherine Jentleson. Foreword by Rand Suffolk. Text by Katherine Jentleson, Ruchi Mital, Destinee Filmore. Poem by Vanessa German.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Katherine Jentleson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42151202848834,"sku":null,"price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2680\/3416\/files\/Earthen_Books_Really_Free-08.jpg?v=1752787794","url":"https:\/\/earthen-shop.live\/products\/really-free-the-radical-art-of-nellie-mae-rowe","provider":"Earthen","version":"1.0","type":"link"}