- Collection:
- Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012
- Title:
- Table for Dunnamite Dan
- Creator:
- Locke, Donald
- Date of Original:
- 2004
- Subject:
- Busts
Masks
Twigs
Creole dialects--Guyana
Artisans--Guyana
Dedications - Location:
- Guyana, 5.0, -59.0
United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018 - Medium:
- sculpture
mixed media
tables
granite
bronze (metal)
steel
wood - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Sculpture by Donald Locke.
Locke was internationally respected as an art critic and an exhibiting artist. His travels allowed him to unite references from diverse cultures with symbols from his own Guyanese birthplace in a search for a universal symbolism in his work. The name "Dunnamite Dan" is actually a reference to the artist's father. Locke described his father as a "furniture maker by trade, highly skilled and much respected by his peers. Occasionally he was also a gold prospector (in Guyana) in the days when gold was plentiful. Each prospector had a nickname by which he was known, such a Skybar, Pigeon Island Brown, or Ocean Shark. As I was told, due to the spectacular feat of building a boat with only an axe, my father earned the nickname Dunnamite Dan. In the local Creolese version of English, dynamite is pronounced 'dunnamite'."
Gift promised to the Tubman African American Museum. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tbmn_sftm_tm04132011-148
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sftm/do:tm04132011-148
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact the Tubman African American Museum re: reproduction and usage. The information contained in this resource may not be re-purposed, reproduced, quoted without proper citation, or offered for sale in any form without the express written permission of the Tubman African American Museum.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 sculpture : mixed media, including granite, bronze, steel, and painted wood ; 143 x 153 x 77 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Tubman African-American Museum
- Rights:
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