Rowe was a domestic servant in Georgia who taught herself to draw and decorated her yard with images, which were eventually shown in Black Folk Art 1930-80 in Washington in 1976.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/mar/19/souls-grown-deep-like-the-rivers-black-artists-from-the-american-south-royal-academy-london-review