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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   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NV000145 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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