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Williams, DeWayne,
Abstract
Landscape -- Cemetery
Homage -- Presley, Elvis
History -- United States
Object -- Other
Architecture -- Domestic
Architecture -- Domestic
Mythology -- Classical
Mythology -- Egyptian
Outdoor Sculpture -- Nevada -- Gerlach
Folk
Site-specific
Sculpture
Guru Road, (sculpture).
Artist:
Williams, DeWayne, sculptor.
Title:
Guru Road, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Dooby Avenue, (sculpture).
Dates:
Begun ca. late 1960s.
Medium:
Local stone, some engraved and painted, granite, red gravel, wood, ceramic, plastic, concrete, fabric, and metal.
Dimensions:
Approx. L. 1.3 miles x D. 100 ft.
Inscription:
Dooby, Guru, Dewayne Williams (Many stones engraved and painted with names and sayings, trivial and serious) signed
Description:
Folk art environment along a stretch of dirt road consisting of hundreds of grave-like sites. There are 8 main sites, including an Elvis monument, a Vietnam wall, a medicine wheel, a hut, a tepee, and two cairn-like structures, one devoted to Aphrodite and the other to Horus.
Subject:
Abstract
Landscape -- Cemetery
Homage -- Presley, Elvis
History -- United States -- Vietnam War
Object -- Other -- Wheel
Architecture -- Domestic -- Hut
Architecture -- Domestic -- Tepee
Mythology -- Classical -- Aphrodite
Mythology -- Egyptian
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Nevada -- Gerlach
Folk
Site-specific
Sculpture
Owner:
Owned by Williams, DeWayne, P. O. Box 213, Gerlach, Nevada 89412
Located 2.3 miles north of Miner's Club, Gerlach, Nevada
Remarks:
Artist still adding to sculpture at the time of the SOS! survey.
References:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Nevada survey, 1994.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAS NV000145
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Inventory of American Sculpture
NV000145
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