biografía de Nellie Mae ROWE (1900-1982)

Lugar de nacimiento: near Atlanta, GA

Lugar de defunción: Vinings, GA

Direcciones: Vinings, GA

Profesión: Painter, sculptor

Exposiciones: Mus. Am. Folk Art, NYC, 1999 (retrospective)

Comentarios: A self-taught African-American artist considered a folk artist, fine artist, and "Outsider" artist. She employed found objects in her figurative sculpture, and her paintings and drawings also showed images based on dreams and fantasy. From 1948-on she continued to compulsively pack the interior of her "Playhouse" home with eerie figures.

Fuentes: Tessa DeCarlo, "An Artist Who Didn"t Know She Was One," NY Times, Jan. 3, 1999, p.35