Fish, 1980

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Medium

watercolor, marker, grease pencil, and graphite on wove watercolor paper

Dimensions

sheet: 45.72 × 60.96 cm (18 × 24 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation

Accession Number

2020.28.20

Artists / Makers

Nellie Mae Rowe (artist) American, 1900 - 1982

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Inscription

lower right in ink: Nellie Mae Rowe

Provenance

The artist, Atlanta, Georgia; 1982 Judith Alexander, Atlanta, Georgia; 1995 William S. Arnett, Atlanta, Georgia; 2012 gift to the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia; 2020 purchased by NGA.

Associated Names

Souls Grown Deep Foundation

Exhibition History

2022: Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022-2023.

Bibliography

2000: Arnett, Paul, and William Arnett. Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South. 2 vols. Atlanta, 2000-2001: vol. 1, p. 294, pl. 296, repro, p. 297.