My house is Clean Enought to Be healty and it dirty Enought to Be happy
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Object Details
Artist/Maker
Nellie Mae Rowe, American, 1900–1982
Date
1978–1982
Medium
Crayon and pencil on paper
Dimensions
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Credit
Gift of Judith Alexander
Accession #
2003.146
Image Copyright
© Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Description
“I kept house long enough, I don’t want to be bothered by nobody ’cept self,” was how Rowe put her decision not to marry for a third time nor to seek further employment as a domestic worker. She got a kick out of household goods that cleverly and joyfully articulated the easing of domestic duties, like a napkin she saw at her niece’s that bore the phrase that is the title of this work.