African American Museum The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety-Nine
and a Half Won't Do A collection of colorful drawings and
collages, mixed media sculptures, chewing gum figures, and hand
sewn dolls are featured in The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety-
Nine and a Half Won't Do exhibit at the African American Museum
which will run through May 14, 2000. The exhibition includes 90
original works created by self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe
(1900 -1982). As the first major, nationally traveling museum
exhibition to explore the full range of Rowe's talents, this
show traces her development as an artist beginning in the 1940s.
Also included are ten photographs of Rowe and her splendid
surroundings taken by other artists, photographers and admirers.
Nellie Mae Rowe, born in Fayetteville, Georgia, lived the last
50 years of her life in Vinings, Georgia. After her second
husband's death in 1948, she devoted most of her time to art.
Her highly detailed and vividly colored drawings include
pictures of herself, friends, barn