<I>Landscape with Kwame N'krumah</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1992
name: label: Created by
content: Donald Locke, Guyanese, 1930 - 2010
label: Subject of
content: Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian, 1909 - 1972
notes: label: Caption
content: The work of Guyanese-born ceramicist and mixed-media artist Donald Locke reflects a blend of Guyanese culture, West African arts and traditions, and European aesthetic conventions.
label: Caption
content: Courtesy of fellowships and scholarships, Locke studied in the United Kingdom, where his best-known work is the Plantation series, which includes sculptures linked together as a metaphor for a system where one group of people is held down by another. He later moved to the United States. His last 20 years were spent in Atlanta, Georgia, sculpting, painting, and teaching. Landscape with Kwame N’Krumah is Locke’s homage to the first the first African leader to break free from British colonialism when he was elected the president of independent Ghana.
label: Description
content: A contemporary artwork made of acrylic and collage on canvas. This artwork is comprised of three (3) canvases connected together to form a T-shape. Down the center of the artwork, across all three (3) canvases, is painted a large, vertical splash of black acrylic and tar mix, which partially or fully covers all of the elements of collage and mixed media. The attached elements include burlap, photocopied images on paper, metal, a plank of wood and two small wood doors, pieces of cut glass, leather and fur. Many of the photocopied images are of conflict or military themes, while others are images of sculptures and other artworks, and a cluster of images at the center-right of the artwork are of the Ghanaian former President Kwame Nkrumah. Underneath the areas painted with the black acrylic and tar mix, a wash of gray, blue, and brown acrylic paints swirl around the canvases in thick brushstrokes. Each of the three (3) canvases is predominantly bare along its left and right borders. The canvases are framed together in a shadow box style within a black, custom-built frame.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Ghana, West Africa, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Africa
label: Topic
content: African diaspora
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Decolonization
label: Topic
content: Freedom
label: Topic
content: Identity
label: Topic
content: Resistance
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
label: Movement
content: Pan Africanism
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Estate of Donald Locke
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.113.1
objectType: label: Type
content: collages
label: Type
content: paintings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Estate of Donald Locke
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: acrylic paint on canvas with mixed media , burlap , paper (fiber product) , metal , wood , glass , leather and fur with silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (framed): 95 1/2 × 76 × 3 3/4 in. (242.6 × 193 × 9.5 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (canvas ): 92 × 72 × 1 1/2 in. (233.7 × 182.9 × 3.8 cm)