Blue Rooster

Nellie Mae Rowe, Blue Rooster, 1980, pastel, crayon, and ink on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment and the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, 2021.29.1
Nellie Mae Rowe, Blue Rooster, 1980, pastel, crayon, and ink on paper, sheet and image: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm) frame: 23 12 × 27 14 in. (59.7 × 69.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment and the American Women’s History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, 2021.29.1

Artwork Details

Title
Blue Rooster
Date
1980
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet and image: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm) frame: 23 12 × 27 14 in. (59.7 × 69.2 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment and the American Women’s History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative
Mediums Description
pastel, crayon, and ink on paper
Subjects
  • Landscape — farm
  • Animal — bird — chicken
Object Number
2021.29.1

Works by this artist (1 item)

Edith Jaffy Kaplan, Political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom...we must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power.--Montesquieu on the Nature of Liberty. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., 1951, brush and ink and gouache on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America, 1984.124.137
Political liberty does not consist in an unlimited freedom…
Date1951
brush and ink and gouache on paper
Not on view

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