- Collection:
- Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012
- Title:
- Dianne
- Creator:
- Samuels, O.L., 1931-
- Date of Original:
- 1998-2008
- Subject:
- Folk art--United States
African American folk art--United States
Sculpture--United States
African American sculpture--United States
Folk art--Florida
African American folk art--Florida
Sculpture--Florida
African American sculpture--Florida
Human figure in art
Figure sculpture--United States
Figure sculpture--20th century
Figure sculpture--21st century
Glitter art - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Florida, 28.75054, -82.5001 - Medium:
- mixed media
wood
paint - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Sculpture by O. L. Samuels.
O. L. Samuels left home at eight years old, worked on Georgia farms, and later traveled to New York City where he became a professional prize fighter. He returned to the South in the early 1960s and found work as a tree surgeon. In 1982, an accident on the job left him severely injured. Discouraged by his slow recovery, he fell into a depression until he remembered that his grandmother, a former slave, once told him that a person could combat depression by carving on a spool of wood. Samuels picked up some wood and began to carve. Today, he continues to carve, allowing his sense of humor and vivid imagination to dictate the often mystical figures that emerge from the wood.
Purchase of the Tubman African American Museum. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tbmn_sftm_tm04132011-173
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sftm/do:tm04132011-173
- 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 wood, acrylic paint, and glitter ; 120 x 44 x 64 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Tubman African-American Museum
- Rights:
-
