This is the final week of Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe. In the final section of the exhibition you can find this quote from Rowe:⁠ ⁠ “The pictures I am proud of that I have made are of my hand. I leave my hand on the wall. When I’m gone they can see a print of my hand. I love that—to see a print of my hand. I’ll be gone to rest, but they can look back and say, ‘That is Nellie Mae’s hand.’”⁠ ⁠ For this work, Rowe darkened her skin, possibly suggesting achieving peace with who she was as a Black woman despite her struggles because of her race, gender, and class. The bird’s-eye vantage point makes it seem that Rowe is looking down at her own hands as she ascends from a whimsically colored creature and background.⁠ ⁠ Experience #NellieMaeRoweBkM before it closes on January 1. ⁠ ⁠ 🎨 Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982). Untitled (Peace), 1978–82. Crayon and pen on paper, 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm). High Museum of Art, gift of Judith Alexander, 2003.219. © 2022 Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. (Photo: Courtesy of the High Museum of Art)