press - Nellie Mae Rowe
2020 - video diary by Katie jentleson, curator of folk art at The High museum of art in atlanta on the making of an upcoming exhibition of the art of nellie mae rowe
2018 -In Paris, Black Doll Exhibition Explores Women’s Craft, History of Childhood Play, and Dynamics of America’s Racial Structure
A 2018 exhibition at La Maison Rouge in Paris presented art objects produced during an early period in American history. “Black Dolls: The Deborah Neff Collection” features more than 200 dolls hand made between the 1840s and 1940s.
Nellie Mae Rowe, whose dolls were created a bit later than most, is one of only three artists who are cited by name in this exhibition; the makers of most of the dolls are unknown.
Learn more here.
Read Slate.com review by Jordan G. Teicher
Read the Culture Type review by Victoria L. Valentine
Read the ArtDaily review
Nellie Mae Rowe, “Untitled (Red Doll/Poupée Rouge),” Vinings, Georgia, 1970–1980
2017 - Museums Celebrate the Black Women Artists History Has Overlooked
By Priscilla Frank, Arts and Culture Reporter
The Huffington Post, February 20, 2017 (Updated February 24, 2017)
Nellie Mae Rowe, “Untitled (Two Figures and Animal,” Vinings, Georgia, 1979–1980
2014 - The New YOrker Magazine Review: The met embraces neglected southern artists
Nellie Mae Rowe's work is well-represented in the gift made to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, by The Souls Grown Deep Foundation. The venerable museum was given its pick of the 1,500 or so works of art in the collection. Of the 19 works by Nellie Mae Rowe that the Foundation owned, 5 were chosen by the Met.
The Met Embraces Neglected Southern Artists
By Paige Williams, for The New Yorker Magazine
Nellie Mae Rowe, Rocking Chair, 1981
1999 - An artist who didn't know she was one
A review of the Museum of American Folk Art's exhibition, Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety-Nine-and-a-Half Won’t Do
By Tessa DiCarlo, for The New York Times
January 3, 1999
Nellie Mae Rowe, Cow Jump Over the Mone,1978
1978 - The Atlanta Journal
"Nellie Mae Rowe Draws Random Line, Gives Form to Memories That Crowd In" by W.C. Burnett for The Atlanta Journal