Donald Cuthbert Locke (17 September 1930 – 6 December 2010) was a Guyanese artist who created drawings, paintings and sculptures in a variety of media. He studied in the United Kingdom, and worked in Guyana and the United Kingdom before moving to the United States in 1979. He spent his last twenty years, perhaps the most productive and innovative period of his life, in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] His eldest son is British sculptor Hew Locke.

Biography

Birth and early education

Donald Locke was born on 17 September 1930 in Stewartville, Demerara County, Guyana.[2] His father, also called Donald Locke, was a skilled carpenter who made furniture and his mother, Ivy Mae (née Harper), was a primary school teacher. The family moved to Georgetown in 1938, where Locke attended the Bourda Roman Catholic School and then the Smith's Church Congregational School.[3] He went on to the Progressive High School, graduating in 1946. He was accepted as a student at the Broad Street Government School, where he became increasingly interested in drawing.[4]

In 1947 Locke attended a Working People's Art Class (WPAC) taught in Georgetown by the local artist Edward Rupert Burrowes. This inspired him to take up painting.[2] Burrowes has often been called the "father of Guyanese art". Writing about Burrowes in the 1966 Guyana Independence Issue of New World, Locke describes how he was constantly engaged in "technical exploration", including making his own paints from unlikely ingredients and conducting experiments "with balata, buckram, tailor's canvas, rice bags, bitumen, concrete and ... clay mixed with molasses."[5]

In 1950 Locke graduated with a Teacher's Certificate. Locke became a regular contributor to the annual WPAC exhibitions, and for a while was secretary of WPAC, helping to organise exhibitions in different locations. In 1952 WPAC gave him the First Prize Gold Medal Award for his abstract painting The Happy Family.[2] He was given a British Council art scholarship in 1954, the last such scholarship to be awarded in Guyana in this period, with which he was able to study ceramics at the Bath School of Art and Design at Corsham, England.[6] The Guyana Department of Education provided an additional scholarship that funded his third year at Corsham.[4] He was taught painting by William Scott and Bryan Wynter, pottery by James Tower and sculpture by Ken Armitage and Bernard Meadows. He graduated in 1957 with a Teaching Certificate in Art Education.[3]

Guyana and United Kingdom

Returning to Georgetown in 1957, Locke began teaching art at Dolphin Government School and at WPAC. In 1958 he married Leila Locke (née) Chaplin, a teacher whom he had met at Corsham.[7] He did not have normal potter's equipment, but was able to make and successfully fire large earthenware pots using an improvised kiln. In 1959 the Guyanese government gave him a grant to study for a master's degree in fine arts at Edinburgh College of Art, a school in the University of Edinburgh. There he met the artists Dave Cohen, Sheldon Kaganof and Dion Myers, who introduced the ideas of the California Clay Movement to Britain. For many years Locke's work reflected their influence.[4]

In 1962 Locke obtained a grant from Edinburgh University to go to Florence and Ravenna, where he undertook historical research He completed his graduate thesis in 1964 and returned to Georgetown to take up a position as Art Master at Queen's College,[4] where he taught from 1964 until 1970.[8] He began painting due to lack of facilities for pottery. In 1969 he obtained a British Council bursary that let him take leave from Queen's College and return to the Edinburgh College of Art for research in ceramic techniques. In 1970, after a trip to Brazil sponsored by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he resigned from Queen's College and moved to London, where he obtained work teaching ceramics. His work began to incorporate materials such as metal, wood, leather, fur and ceramics.[4] He gained a growing recognition for his ceramic work, and in 1972 was invited to exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the International Exhibition of Ceramics.[9]

United States

Locke visited the United States for the first time in 1976, as guest artist at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Montville, Maine.[4] In 1999 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture, and for a year was an artist in residence at Arizona State University.[10] His first of many bronze sculptures were cast by the Arizona Bronze Foundry in 1980. He divorced Leila in the late 1970s,[11] and obtained permanent residency status in the United States, marrying Art Consultant Brenda Stephenson in 1981. In 1983 he moved to Phoenix, Arizona.[4] Locke lived in the southwest of the United States for 11 years. During this period he was the Arizona correspondent for Artspace magazine, for which he wrote a series of articles. He also wrote for the Phoenix New Times and for Arts Magazine.[2]

In 1989 he temporarily abandoned sculpture in favour of painting, and the next year moved to Atlanta, Georgia.[2] His paintings combined heavy paint, photographs, cloth, wood, metal and found objects mounted on canvas. In 1992, with a five-year grant for a studio at the Nexus Contemporary Art Center, he returned to sculpture.[4] Locke taught part-time at Georgia State University and at the Atlanta College of Art, retiring from teaching in 1996.[12] He continued to write about art. Thus a review by Locke of the Okiek Portraits exhibition of photographs of Okiek people in traditional dress appeared in Creative Loafing of November 1997.[13] He contributed a weekly review to this paper for three years.[2] He lived in Atlanta for the remainder of his life, with growing recognition from exhibitions of his work in the US and Europe.[10]

An outgoing person, with a generous character, Locke enjoyed entertaining people at dinners where he did all the cooking. He loved to talk about art, and was an interesting and engaging speaker.[1] He has been called "a larger-than-life personality and a wonderful storyteller, as influential in his conversation as he was with his art."[14]

Donald Locke died at home in Atlanta on 6 December 2010.[15] He was survived by three children from his marriage with the artist Leila Locke: Corinne, Jonathan and Hew.[16] Hew Locke, born in Edinburgh, is also a well-known artist.[17]

Work

Locke's work was highly varied. Marianne Lambert, an Atlanta curator and art patron, said: "His expressiveness ran the gamut from frenzied drawings to the spare, clean lines of his sculptures." According to Carl Hazlewood of Newark, associate editor at NKA, a Journal of Contemporary African Art, "Donald's art grew out of sophisticated European traditions acquired during his studies in Guyana and Great Britain, but it also was infused with the myths and poetic aspects of his Guyana homeland and its folklore." A prolific artist throughout his life, Locke in his earlier modernist work was influenced by other schools. He came into his own as a unique individual in Atlanta under the influence of local folk artists such as Thornton Dial.[14]

Talking of the influence of the open savannah landscape of Guyana on Locke's early work, one writer said Locke was "concerned with the question of space as it confronts the artist: what to do with nothingness; how to lead the eye of the viewer into a vast expanse through the narrow frame of a single painting."[18] In the United Kingdom his best known work may be the paintings and sculptures in The Plantation Series, described as "forms held in strict lines and grids, connected as if with chains or a series of bars, analogous he has said, to the system whereby one group of people are kept in economic and political subjugation by another."[19] A reviewer commenting on his work Trophies of Empire 1, 1972–1974 said it "comprise[s] robust disconnected forms that eerily echo the cultures and geographies he had experienced. Heavy metal vessels, solid wood forms and found objects are placed together creating awkward human effigies or challenging abstract assemblages. Their loaded erotic and sometimes violent symbolism bring to mind mournful memories from the past and issues related to slavery, identity and sovereignty. His are sombre images of the Black Atlantic world that Locke straddled so boldly."[10]

Exhibitions

Locke was Guyana's representative at the 12th São Paulo Art Biennial in 1971.[20] He exhibited his Two Sculptures from a Ritual Fertility Suite in Hungary in 1975 at the International Biennale of Sculpture. In 1976 he had his own show at the Roundhouse in London, and in 1977 his work was displayed in Nigeria at FESTAC. His Trophies of Empire was first displayed at the Afro-Caribbean Art Exhibition in 1978, and was shown again at London's Hayward Gallery in 1989 in The Other Story,[21] an influential show that helped to increase public awareness of the quality of work of Asian, African and Caribbean artists, and also featured other Caribbean artists such as Aubrey Williams and Ronald Moody, as well the paintings of Black British artists including Sonia Boyce.[22] The art critic Brian Sewell said that Locke's sculptures in The Other Story showed exquisite mastery and extraordinary ingenuity.[23]

In 1994 Locke went to Ecuador, where his work was shown in the exhibition Current Identities at the Cuenca Bienal of Painting, along with the work of other artists including Whitfield Lovell, Philemona Williamson, Emilio Cruz and Freddy Rodríguez.[24] A 2002 exhibition at the Solomon Projects gallery in Atlanta featured rough wax sculptures that represented the sacred symbols of Locke's Guyanese creole heritage.[25] In 2009 an exhibition of about fifty of his recent sculptures and paintings named Pork Knocker Dreams was staged in England. "Porkknocker" is the name given to gold prospectors in Guyana: Locke's father had prospected as a young man.[20]

Locke exhibited in many other group and solo shows, including in São Paulo, Brazil; Medellín, Colombia; Budapest, Hungary; Faenza, Italy; Victoria and Albert Museum and Whitechapel Gallery in London, United Kingdom; Nottingham, United Kingdom; Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, New Jersey; Nexus Biennial and the Master Artist Series, Atlanta, Georgia; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. His gallery shows included Nexus and City Gallery East in Atlanta and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona.[19]

Solo exhibitions

A partial list of solo exhibitions:[26]

Date City Location Title / Notes

1975 London (UK) Commonwealth Institute DONALD LOCKE

2002 Atlanta (GA) Solomon Projects DONALD LOCKE

4 April 2003 Atlanta (GA) City Hall Gallery East DONALD LOCKE: The Road to El Dorado: 12 Years in Atlanta

8 May – 2 June 2004 New York (NY) Skoto Gallery DONALD LOCKE: Paintings and Mixed Media Sculpture

15 April – 7 July 2004 Newark (NJ) Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art Bending the Grid: Modernity, Identity and the Vernacular in the Work of DONALD LOCKE

16 October – 22 November 2008 New York (NY) Skoto Gallery DONALD LOCKE: Master Works, Recent Works

26 September – 19 December 2009 Nottingham (UK) New Art Exchange DONALD LOCKE: Pork Knocker Dreams

Group exhibitions

A partial list of group exhibitions:[26]

Date City Location Title / Notes

30 September – 30 October 1981 PHOENIX (AZ) Arizona Bank Galleria Artists of the Black Community of Arizona

26 May – 19 August 1988 PHOENIX (AZ) Phoenix Opportunities Industrialization Center Artists of the Black Community/USA

28 November 1989 – 4 February 1990 LONDON (UK) Hayward Gallery The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain

May 1994 NEW YORK (NY) Studio Museum in Harlem The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African-American Art

1994 ATLANTA (GA) Camille Love Gallery Dimensions of Guyana

22 March – 7 June 2003 ATLANTA (GA) The Contemporary 2003 Atlanta Biennial

25 June – 25 July 2004 ATLANTA (GA) City Gallery East. Atlanta Collects / Women

10 September – 27 November 2004 ATLANTA (GA) Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Transitions II

7 June – 4 September 2005 LONDON (UK) Whitechapel Art Gallery Back to Black: Art, Cinema, and the Racial Imaginary

2006 ATLANTA (GA) Spruill Center Gallery CHANGE: Work by Lucinda Bunnen, Annette Cone-Skelton, Donald Locke, Rocio Rodruguez

18 February – 29 May 2009 COLLEGE PARK (MD) David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art

7 July – 6 August 2011 NEW YORK (NY) Skoto Gallery Summer Show

13 August – 3 September 2011 BROOKLYN (NY) FiveMyles Contemporary Expressions: Art from the Guyana Diaspora

Outstanding Guyanese Artist/Sculptor, Donald Cuthbert Locke, passed away yesterday in the United States. He was 80.

Born in September 17, 1930 in Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, Locke began painting in 1947 under E.R. Burrowes, MBE, in the Working People’s Art Class in Georgetown.

He earned a Teacher’s Certificate in 1950 and contributed annually to Working People’s Art Class (WPAC) exhibitions. Locke served for a time as WPAC’s secretary, assisting in organising outdoor and traveling shows in Berbice.

Dead: Donald Locke

In 1952, he won the WPAC’s First Prize Gold Medal Award for abstract painting The Happy Family.

Awarded a British Council Scholarship in 1954, he studied at Bath Academy of Art in Wiltshire, England. In 1959 he was awarded a Guyana Government Award to Edinburgh University, Scotland. Between 1964 and 1970, Locke was Art Master at Queen’s College.

In 1979 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture and went to the United States. He was artist-in-residence at Arizona State University for one year; he became a permanent resident in 1980.

During the following eleven years he spent in the Southwest, Locke was known for his figurative sculptures in bronze and for his series of articles on the contemporary art of the Southwest in Artspace magazine, for which he was Arizona’s correspondent.

In 1982 he was art critic for New Times, a weekly news and arts journal in Phoenix. His art criticism has also appeared in Arts Magazine.

He began painting again in 1989. He moved to Atlanta in 1990 and for five years was one of the resident studio artists at Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center. Locke was a member of the part-time faculty at Georgia State University and Atlanta College of Art.

He retired from teaching in 1996. For three years he wrote a weekly review for Creative Loafing, Atlanta and is a member of the Advisory Board of Art Papers.

Locke’s recent work, primarily sculpture, was influenced as much by native cultures and vernacular myth as by classical European tradition. His most recent body of work seamlessly fuses these elements, integrating influences of his various ancestries (Africa, Asia, European).

The management and staff of Kaieteur News extend sincerest condolences to his immediate family, other relatives and close friends.

Donald Locke

DONALD LOCKE, an inter-nationally-known artist and lecturer, is an enigma of the art world.  His work, which comes out of his personal experiences and study at home and abroad, does not fit into any standard mode of sculpture or painting.  Even the title of this exhibit, “The Edge of Spirit,” is a question.   Locke says that “spirit” is “used to refer to the reality of a thing and not as it appears in the ‘canon of realism’.”  Interestingly, enough Carlo Carra, the Italian surrealist painter, would agree.  In “The Quadrant of Spirit” (1919) he stated, “I know perfectly well how little importance vain philosophizing is, but people always tend to attribute qualities to us that are quite aside from what we are aiming at…. The painter-poet feels that his true immutable essence comes from that invisible realm that offers him an image of eternal reality” Yet Locke refuses to use the term “surrealism” to describe his work.  He believes that to be labeled is to be confined to narrow standards.  As far as it is possible to do so, Locke has freed himself from all art stereotypes.

Born in 1930 in Stewartville, Guyana, South America, he was the second son of Ivy Mae Harper, a primary school teacher, and Donald Locke, Sr., a highly skilled furniture maker who at the age of nineteen was foreman of the pattern-making workshop at the sugar plantation where he worked. In 1938 the family moved to the capital, Georgetown, where Locke attended Bourda Roman Catholic School and Smith’s Church Congregational School.

At seventeen, he began painting under E.R. Burrowes, an artist and teacher in the Working People’s Free Art Class in Georgetown, Guyana.  In 1954 he was awarded a British Council Scholarship and studied at the Bath Academy in Wiltshire, England, where he received a Teaching Certificate in Art Education with a Supplementary Certificate in the Visual Arts with Museum and Drama (equivalent to a B. A.).  There he studied painting under William Scott and Bryan Wynter, pottery under James Tower, and sculpture under Ken Armitage and Bernard Meadows.

Locke, Donald. (Stewartville, Guyana, 1930-Atlanta, GA, 2010)

 

Bibliography and Exhibitions

MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Atlanta (GA). City Gallery East.

DONALD LOCKE: The Road to El Dorado: 12 Years in Atlanta.

Thru April 4, 2003.

Solo exhibition of drawings, paintings, sculpture. Installed by Atlanta artist Freddie Styles. The show encompasses work from 1991, when Locke moved to Atlanta, thru the present.

Atlanta (GA). Solomon Projects.

DONALD LOCKE.

2002.

Solo exhibition of new sculpture employing materials such as African utensils, bush rope from the Guyana forest, exotic woods, found metal, ceramic objects and dried twigs and branches. [Review: Richard Gess, Art Papers, November-December 2002; Amre Klimchak, "Donald Locke, Solomon Projects," Sculpture Magazine, April 2003.]

Atlanta (GA). Spelman College.

DONALD LOCKE.

1991.

Solo exhibition.

Hay, Vicki.

The Multifaceted DONALD LOCKE.

1989.

In: American Visions, October 1989.

London (UK). Commonwealth Institute.

DONALD LOCKE.

1975.

Solo exhibition of ceramics/aluminum and mixed-media sculpture made of metal, wood, leather, fur and ceramics.

New Orleans (LA). Stella Jones Gallery.

DONALD LOCKE:The Edge of Spirit, Selection of Drawings & Mixed Media Sculpture.

2010.

Solo exhibition.

New York (NY). Skoto Gallery.

DONALD LOCKE: Master Works, Recent Works.

October 16-November 22, 2008.

Solo exhibition.

New York (NY). Skoto Gallery.

DONALD LOCKE: Paintings and Mixed Media Sculpture.

May 8-June 12, 2004.

Solo exhibition. A mini-retrospective covering work from the previous 15 years. Curated by Carl Hazlewood.

Newark (NJ). Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art.

Bending the Grid: Modernity, Identity and the Vernacular in the Work of DONALD LOCKE.

April 15-July 7, 2004.

42 pp. exhib. cat., illus., chronol., bibliog. Text by curator Carl E. Hazlewood. Includes paintings and mixed-media installations. [Review: Benjamin Genocchio, "Picasso, Guyanese Jungles And A Robust Hybrid Art," NYT/New Jersey ed. May 30, 2004; Holland Cotter, "Bending the Grid: Modernity, Identity and the Vernacular in the Work of Donald Locke," NYT, June 25, 2004.]

Wolverhampton (UK). Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

DONALD LOCKE: Pork Knocker Dreams.

February 20-May 29, 2010.

Solo exhibition. Curated by Indra Khanna. Survey of works of sculpture, pottery, painting, and mixed media works made of human hair, and found objects. The "Port Knockers" were fearless gold prospectors who searched the jungles of the New World in the hope of discovering El Dorado.

GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

ATLANTA (GA)..

Art Against the Wall, An Artist Response to Civil Wars.

July 11-August 22, 2014.

Group exhibition. Curated by Radcliffe Bailey. Included: Mohau Modisakeng, PAA Joe, George Washington Carver, Donald Locke.

ATLANTA (GA). Camille Love Gallery.

Dimensions of Guyana.

1994.

Two-person exhibition: Frank Bowling and Donald Locke.

ATLANTA (GA). City Gallery East.

Atlanta Collects / Women.

June 25-July 25, 2004.

Group exhibition of work by and about African American women featuring the works of Kofi Bailey, Elizabeth Catlett, Stephanie Jackson, D. E. Johnson, Donald Locke, Valerie Maynard, Nellie Mae Rowe, Freddie Styles, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson, and others.

ATLANTA (GA). City Gallery East.

Reunion: All Masters' Show.

2008.

Group exhibition.

ATLANTA (GA). Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA).

Transitions II.

September 10-November 27, 2004.

Group exhibition of six Georgia artists. Curated by Karen Comer. Included British artist Donald Locke (who spent his last years in Atlanta.)

ATLANTA (GA). Nations Bank Plaza.

Atlanta Painting.

1999.

Group exhibition. Included: Donald Locke.

ATLANTA (GA). Nexus Contemporary Art Center.

1992 Atlanta Biennial: Into the Light.

1992.

Group exhibition. Included: Donald Locke.

ATLANTA (GA). Spruill Center for the Arts.

CHANGE: Work by Lucinda Bunnen, Annette Cone-Skelton, Donald Locke, Rocio Rodruguez.

August 3-September 9, 2006.

Exhib. cat., illus. Four-person exhibition. Curated by Julia A. Fenton.

ATLANTA (GA). Spruill Center for the Arts.

Looks Good on Paper: Paper, Fire, Light.

July 12-September 8, 2007.

Group exhibition. Juried by Julia A. Fenton. Included: Paul S. Benjamin, Donald Locke, Yanique Norman.

ATLANTA (GA). The Contemporary.

2003 Atlanta Biennial.

March 22-June 7, 2003.

Group exhibition of the work of 25 artists. Curated by Franklin Sirmans. Included: Michael Gibson, Donte' K. Hayes, Lance Lamont, Donald Locke, Eric Mack, James Hiram Malone, Omar Thompson, and Larry Walker.

BAILEY, DAVID A., IAN BAUCOM, and SONIA BOYCE, eds.

Shades of Black: assembling black arts in 1980s Britain.

Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

xxv, 340 pp., color plates, illus., index. Includes (many only in passing): Ajamu, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Zarina Bhimji, Frank Bowling, Sonia Boyce, Eddie Chambers, Allan DeSouza, Uzo Egonu, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Mikki Ferrill, Joy Gregory, Lyle Ashton Harris, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Isaac Julien, Roshini Kempadoo, Marc Latamie, Dave Lewis, Glann Ligon, Donald Locke, Whitfield Lovell, Steve McQueen, Ronald Moody, Ngozi Onwurah, Horace Ove, Keith Piper's "Wait, Did I Miss Something? Some Personal Musings on the 1980s and Beyond," Adrian Piper, Ingrid Pollard, Marlon Riggs, Veronica Ryan, Hussein Shariffe, Yinka Shonibare, Vincent Stokes, Maud Sulter, Kara Walker, Maxine Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Aubrey Williams, et al. 4to (26 cm.; 10.5 x 8.25 in.), cloth, d.j.

BROOKLYN (NY). FiveMyles.

Contemporary Expressions: Art from the Guyana Diaspora.

August 13-September 3, 2011.

Group exhibition. Curated by Carl E. Hazlewood. Included: Damali Abrams, Carl Anderson, Frank Bowling, Dudley Charles, Victor Davson, Stanley Greaves, Carl Hazlewood, Gregory A. Henry, Donald Locke, Andrew Lyght, Philip Moore, Bernadette Persaud, Arlingtton Weithers.

COLLEGE PARK (MD). David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland.

Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art.

February 18-May 29, 2009.

101 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Artists included: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Herman Kofi Bailey, Radcliffe Bailey, Amiri Baraka, Camille J. Billops, Moe Brooker, Vivian Browne, Archie Byron, Carl Christian, Claude Clark, Sr., Kevin E. Cole, Ernest Crichlow, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Louis Delsarte, David C. Driskell, Michael Ellison, David Fludd, Ramon Gabriel, Reginald Gammon, Sam Gilliam, John W. Hardrick, Palmer Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Humbert Howard, Stefanie Jackson, Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Fred Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Ronald Joseph, Larry Lebby, Norman Lewis, Donald Locke, James H. Malone, Edward Martin, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Ealy Mays, E.J. Montgomery, Norma Morgan, Hayward Oubre, Joe Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, Charles Porter, James A. Porter, Teri Richardson, Preston Sampson, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Jewel Simon, Walter A. Simon, Thelma Johnson Streat, Freddy Styles, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Bill Taylor, Bob Thompson, Mildred J. Thompson, Larry Walker, Joyce Wellman, Jack H. White, William T. Williams, Ellis Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Hartwell Yeargans, James Yeargans. [Traveled to: Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, January 30-March 28, 2011, and other venues.)

GEORGETOWN (Guyana). National Gallery of Art, Castellani House.

Donald Locke and the Artists of the Independence Era.

2012.

Group exhibition.

LONDON (UK). Artists Market.

Afro-Caribbean Art.

April 27-May 25, 1978.

Group exhibition organized by Drum Arts Centre. Included: Mohammed Ahmed Abdalla, Keith Ashton, Colin Barker, Lloyd George Blair, Frank Bowling, Jan Connell, Dam X, D. Dasri, Horace De Bourg, Gordon De la Mothe, Daphne Dennison, Art Derry, Barbara Douglas, Reynold Duncan, Anthony Gidden, Lubaina Himid, Merdelle Irving, Siddig El N'Goumi, Anthony Jadunath, Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede, Errol Lloyd, Donald Locke, G.S. Lynch, Cyprian Manadala, Althea McNish, Lloyd Nelson, Eugene Palmer, Bill Patterson, Rudi Patterson, Shaigi Rahim, Orville Smith, Jeffrey Rickard Trotman, Adesoe Wallace, Lance Watson, Tony Moo Young, et al. [Review: Rasheed Araeen, "Afro-Caribbean Art," Black Phoenix 2 (Summer 1978):30-31; Emmanuel Cooper, "In View," 13, no. 3 (Issue 148), July 1978:50. - cited by Eddie Chambers, "Black Artists in Europe," Critical Interventions 12 (Fall 2013):5.]

LONDON (UK). Commonwealth Institute.

Caribbean Artists in England.

January 22-February 14, 1971.

17 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Included: Winston Branch, Art Derry, Errol Lloyd, Donald Locke, Althea McNish, Ronald Moody, Keith Simon, Aubrey Williams, et al.

LONDON (UK). Hayward Gallery.

The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain.

November 28, 1989-February 4, 1990.

158 pp. exhib. cat., illus., bibliog. Ed. and extensive text "In the Citadel of Modernism" by curator Rasheed Araeen. Included: Sonia Boyce, Frank Bowling, Eddie Chambers, Uzo Egonu, Lubaina Himid, Donald Locke, Ronald Moody, Keith Piper, Aubrey Williams. [Traveled to: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, March 10-April 22, 1990; Manchester City Art Gallery and Cornerhouse, May 5-June 10, 1990.] [Review: Petrine Archer-Straw, "The Other Story," Art Monthly, February, 1990; Corinna Lotz, "The Other Story Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain," Third Text (1990).] 4to (28 cm.), wraps. First ed.

LONDON (UK). Whitechapel Art Gallery.

Back to Black: Art, Cinema, and the Racial Imaginary.

June 7-September 4, 2005.

200 pp. exhib. cat., 185 illus. (64 in color), bibliog. Curated by Dr. Petrine Archer-Straw, David A. Bailey, Richard J. Powell. Texts by curators and Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, Kathleen Cleaver, Manthia Diawara, Kodwo Eshun, Paul Gilroy, Kellie Jones. Artists and filmmakers (including many white film directors) on show include: Theodoros Bafaloukos (white director of "Rockers"), Ernie Barnes, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Everald Brown, Vanley Burke, fashion designer Stephen Burrows, Marcel Camus (French director of "Black Orpheus"), Elizabeth Catlett, Larry Cohen, William Crain (director of "Blacula"), Ossie Davis, Haile Gerima, Christopher Gonzalez, Guy Hamilton, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Perry Henzell (white director of "The Harder They Come"), Gavin Jantjes, Kapo, Kofi Kayiga, Patrick Lichfield, Donald Locke, Ed Love, Edna Manley, Arthur Marks, Gilbert Moses III, Horace Ové, Joe Overstreet, Gordon Parks, Adrian Piper, Faith Ringgold, Eddie Romero, Betye Saar, Barry Shear, Peter Simon, Melvin Van Peebles, Osmond Watson, Charles White, Aubrey Williams, Llewellyn Xavier. [Traveled to: The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK.] 4to (26 cm.), cloth. First ed.

NEW ORLEANS (LA). Stella Jones Gallery.

MAHALIA: Queen of Gospel Music.

Thru December 31, 2011.

Group exhibition featuring 55 local and national artists. Included: Sheleen Adenle-Jones, Katrina Andry, Georgette Baker, John Barnes, Jr., Ron Bechet, Peter Boutte, Rukiya, Nina I. Jones, Syd Carpenter, Shakur Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Alonzo Davis, Jr., Najee Dorsey, Kim Dummons, Keith Duncan, Malaika Favorite, Gilbert Fletcher, Gail Fulton-Ross, Reginald Gammon, Charles Gilliam, Paul T. Goodnight, Jefferson Grigsby, Randall Henry, Robin Holder, Ekua Holmes, Letitia Huckaby, Wadsworth Jarrell, Augustus Jenkins, Charlie Johnson, Louise M. Johnson, Charlotte Ka, Roy Lewis, Donald Locke, Chris Malone, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Grace Matthews, Charly Palmer, Cely Pedescleaux, Martin Peyton, Anita Philyaw, Letitia PO, Faith Ringgold, Ayo Scott, Charles Simms, Gailene St. Amand, Phyllis Stevens, Morris Thomas, Monica Tyran, Gerald White. [Review: http://nolavie.com/2011/10/stella-jones-gallery-sings-mahalia-jacksons-praise-38189.html]

NEW YORK (NY). Kenkeleba House.

Timheri Transitions: Expanding Concepts in Guyana Art.

January 7-March 9, 2013.

Group exhibition. Curated by Carl E. Hazlewood. Included: damali abrams, Carl Anderson, Dudley Charles, Victor Davson, Marlon Forrester, Gregory A. Henry, Siddiq Khan, Donald Locke, Andrew Lyght, Bernadette Persaud, Keisha Scarville, and Arlington Weithers.

NEW YORK (NY). Skoto Gallery.

Summer Show 2011.

July 7-August 6, 2011.

Group exhibition. Included: Olu Amoda, Osi Audu, Diako, Ibrahim El Salahi, Romain Ganer. Fathi Hassan, Souleymane Keita, Mohammad Omer Khalil, Khalid Kodi, Wosene Worke Kosrof, Donald Locke, Aimé Mpane, Afi Nayo, Uche Okeke, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Mohamed-Saeed Omer, Pefura.

NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem.

Emerging Artists from the Southwest: The Hale Woodruff Memorial Exhibition.

February 23-June 12, 1986.

(20 pp.), illus. Includes: Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Donald Locke, Obaji Nyambi, et al. Oblong 4to (22 x 28 cm.), wraps. First ed.

NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem.

The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African-American Art.

Thru May, 1994.

56 pp., 43 color plates, checklist of 45 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints, brief bibliog. and short biogs. of the 43 artists included. Intro. by Valerie J. Mercer. Includes: painting by Frederick J. Brown, Ed Clark, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, Cynthia Hawkins, Manuel Hughes, Kerry James Marshall, Howardena Pindell, John Rozelle, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams; sculpture by Colin Chase, Nadine DeLawrence, Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt, Donald Locke, Betye Saar; drawings by Juan Cash, Robert Colescott, Emilio Cruz, Louis J. Delsarte, Thornton Dial, Sr., John E. Dowell, Barkley Hendricks, Ben Jones, Nellie Mae Rowe, Leon Waller; collages by Romare Bearden, Candace Hill; prints by Nanette Carter, James E. Dupree, Ray Grist, Michael Kendall, Norman Lewis, Carolyn Maitland, Valerie Maynard, Howard McCalebb, Lloyd McNeill, Lev Mills, Lee Pate, Stephanie Weaver, Michael Kelly Williams, Richard Yarde. [Review: Holland Cotter, NYT, May 5, 1993.] [Traveled to 14 national venues.] Sq. 8vo, wraps. Ed. of 5000 copies.

NEW YORK (NY). Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba House.

Timehri Transitions: Expanding Concepts in Guyana Art.

January 23-March 9, 2013.

Group exhibition. Curated by Carl E. Hazlewood. Included: Damali Abrams, Carl Anderson, Dudley Charles, Victor Davson, Marlon Forrester, Siddiq Khan, Andrew Lyght, Donald Locke, Bernadette Persaud, and Arlington Weithers. [Review: Marcia G. Yerman, Arc Magazine, February 13, 2013.]

PARIS (France). Revue noire.

Revue noire 1 (mai 1991).

1991.

56 pp., b&w and color illus. Dual lang. text French / English. Ed. by Jean Loup Pivin. Includes: Article on Ousmane Sow's monumental clay sculptures (the series Nuba, Masai, Zulu, Peulh). Black British London with artist portfolios: Saïd Adrus, Osi Audu, Monika Baker, Franklyn Beckford, Frank Bowling, Sonia Boyce, Eddie Chambers, Allan deSouza, Sokari Douglas Camp, Uzo Egonu, Denzil Forrester, Michèle Franklin, Claudette Holmes, Emmanuel Taïwo Jegede, Claudette Johnson, Tam Joseph, Donald Locke, John Lyons, Pitika Ntuli, Eugene Palmer, Keith Piper, Janet Ricketts, Veronica Ryan, and Turunesh. Photography: Rotimi Fani Kayode, David A. Bailey, Monika Baker, Zarina Bhimji, Clement Cooper, Armet Francis, and mention of Autograph. Cinema: Black Audio Film Collective; John Akomfrah. Tall 4to (33 x 23 cm.), wraps. First ed.

PHOENIX (AZ). Arizona Bank Galleria.

Artists of the Black Community of Arizona.

September 30-October 30, 1981.

Unpag. (24 pp.) exhib. cat., illus. with photo, biog., exhibs., awards for each artist. Intro. texts by Don B. Tostenrud and Eugene Grigsby. Included in the exhibition: George Welch, Donald Locke, John A. Joiner, Clifford A. Scott, Kara Shepherd, Jacquelyn A. Lewis-Harris, Mark Alan Herring, Marguerite A. Dickey, Alan Monson Jones, Halbert L. Jackson, Oliver Thomas Parson, Wright Eugene Harris III, Rip Woods, Clendolyn Corbin, Stafford Schliefer, Eugene Grigsby Jr., George G. Howard. Separate page lists others: Anderson E. Fitzhugh, Barbara D. Morris, Doyle Foreman, John Thomas Biggers. Sq. 8vo (21 x 23 cm.), wraps.

PHOENIX (AZ). Phoenix Opportunities Industrialization Center.

Artists of the Black Community/USA.

May 26-August 19, 1988.

Exhib. cat., bio and illus. for each artist. Statements by Robert L. Matthews, Eugene Grigsby Jr. and Gene C. Blue. Artists included: Charles Alston, Edward Bannister, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Robert Blackburn, Betty Blayton, Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Colescott, Vernelle DeSilva, Jeff Donaldson, Mel Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Richard Hunt, Paul Keene, Gwendolyn Knight, Jacob Lawrence, Donald Locke, Richard Mayhew, John Outterbridge, Raymond Saunders, Kara Shepherd, Francis Sprout, Leo Twiggs, George Welch, Charles White, Hale Woodruff, Rip Woods 4to, wraps.

THOMISON, DENNIS.

The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions.

Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1991.

Includes: index to Black artists, bibliography (including doctoral dissertations and audiovisual materials.) Many of the dozens of spelling errors and incomplete names have been corrected in this entry and names of known white artists omitted from our entry, but errors may still exist in this entry, so beware: Jesse Aaron, Charles Abramson, Maria Adair, Lauren Adam, Ovid P. Adams, Ron Adams, Terry Adkins, (Jonathan) Ta Coumba T. Aiken, Jacques Akins, Lawrence E. Alexander, Tina Allen, Pauline Alley-Barnes, Charles Alston, Frank Alston, Charlotte Amevor, Emma Amos (Levine), Allie Anderson, Benny Andrews, Edmund Minor Archer, Pastor Argudin y Pedroso [as Y. Pedroso Argudin], Anna Arnold, Ralph Arnold, William Artis, Kwasi Seitu Asante [as Kwai Seitu Asantey], Steve Ashby, Rose Auld, Ellsworth Ausby, Henry Avery, Charles Axt, Roland Ayers, Annabelle Bacot, Calvin Bailey, Herman Kofi Bailey, Malcolm Bailey, Annabelle Baker, E. Loretta Ballard, Jene Ballentine, Casper Banjo, Bill Banks, Ellen Banks, John W. Banks, Henry Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Curtis R. Barnes, Ernie Barnes, James MacDonald Barnsley, Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Daniel Carter Beard, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Falcon Beazer, Arthello Beck, Sherman Beck, Cleveland Bellow, Gwendolyn Bennett, Herbert Bennett, Ed Bereal, Arthur Berry, Devoice Berry, Ben Bey, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Willie Birch, Eloise Bishop, Robert Blackburn, Tarleton Blackwell, Lamont K. Bland, Betty Blayton, Gloria Bohanon, Hawkins Bolden, Leslie Bolling, Shirley Bolton, Higgins Bond, Erma Booker, Michael Borders, Ronald Boutte, Siras Bowens, Lynn Bowers, Frank Bowling, David Bustill Bowser, David Patterson Boyd, David Bradford, Harold Bradford, Peter Bradley, Fred Bragg, Winston Branch, Brumsic Brandon, James Brantley, William Braxton, Bruce Brice, Arthur Britt, James Britton, Sylvester Britton, Moe Brooker, Bernard Brooks, Mable Brooks, Oraston Brooks-el, David Scott Brown, Elmer Brown, Fred Brown, Frederick Brown, Grafton Brown, James Andrew Brown, Joshua Brown, Kay Brown, Marvin Brown, Richard Brown, Samuel Brown, Vivian Browne, Henry Brownlee, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Arlene Burke-Morgan, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Cecil Burton, Charles Burwell, Nathaniel Bustion, David Butler, Carole Byard, Albert Byrd, Walter Cade, Joyce Cadoo, Bernard Cameron, Simms Campbell, Frederick Campbell, Thomas Cannon (as Canon), Nicholas Canyon, John Carlis, Arthur Carraway, Albert Carter, Allen Carter, George Carter, Grant Carter, Ivy Carter, Keithen Carter, Robert Carter, William Carter, Yvonne Carter, George Washington Carver, Bernard Casey, Yvonne Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett, Frances Catlett, Mitchell Caton, Catti, Charlotte Chambless, Dana Chandler, John Chandler, Robin Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kitty Chavis, Edward Christmas, Petra Cintron, George Clack, Claude Clark Sr., Claude Lockhart Clark, Edward Clark, Irene Clark, LeRoy Clarke, Pauline Clay, Denise Cobb, Gylbert Coker, Marion Elizabeth Cole, Archie Coleman, Floyd Coleman, Donald Coles, Robert Colescott, Carolyn Collins, Paul Collins, Richard Collins, Samuel Collins, Don Concholar, Wallace Conway, Houston Conwill, William A. Cooper, Arthur Coppedge, Jean Cornwell, Eldzier Cortor, Samuel Countee, Harold Cousins, Cleo Crawford, Marva Cremer, Ernest Crichlow, Norma Criss, Allan Rohan Crite, Harvey Cropper, Geraldine Crossland, Rushie Croxton, Doris Crudup, Dewey Crumpler, Emilio Cruz, Charles Cullen (White artist), Vince Cullers, Michael Cummings, Urania Cummings, DeVon Cunningham, Samuel Curtis, William Curtis, Artis Dameron, Mary Reed Daniel, Aaron Darling, Alonzo Davis, Bing Davis, Charles Davis, Dale Davis, Rachel Davis, Theresa Davis, Ulysses Davis, Walter Lewis Davis, Charles C. Davis, William Dawson, Juette Day, Roy DeCarava, Avel DeKnight, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Nadine Delawrence, Louis Delsarte, Richard Dempsey, J. Brooks Dendy, III (as Brooks Dendy), James Denmark, Murry DePillars, Joseph DeVillis, Robert D'Hue, Kenneth Dickerson, Voris Dickerson, Charles Dickson, Frank Dillon, Leo Dillon, Robert Dilworth, James Donaldson, Jeff Donaldson, Lillian Dorsey, William Dorsey, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, Calvin Douglass, Glanton Dowdell, John Dowell, Sam Doyle, David Driskell, Ulric S. Dunbar, Robert Duncanson, Eugenia Dunn, John Morris Dunn, Edward Dwight, Adolphus Ealey, Lawrence Edelin, William Edmondson, Anthony Edwards, Melvin Edwards, Eugene Eda [as Edy], John Elder, Maurice Ellison, Walter Ellison, Mae Engron, Annette Easley, Marion Epting, Melvyn Ettrick (as Melvin), Clifford Eubanks, Minnie Evans, Darrell Evers, Frederick Eversley, Cyril Fabio, James Fairfax, Kenneth Falana, Josephus Farmer, John Farrar, William Farrow, Malaika Favorite, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, Claude Ferguson, Violet Fields, Lawrence Fisher, Thomas Flanagan, Walter Flax, Frederick Flemister, Mikelle Fletcher, Curt Flood, Batunde Folayemi, George Ford, Doyle Foreman, Leroy Foster, Walker Foster, John Francis, Richard Franklin, Ernest Frazier, Allan Freelon, Gloria Freeman, Pam Friday, John Fudge, Meta Fuller, Ibibio Fundi, Ramon Gabriel, Alice Gafford, West Gale, George Gamble, Reginald Gammon, Christine Gant, Jim Gary, Adolphus Garrett, Leroy Gaskin, Lamerol A. Gatewood, Herbert Gentry, Joseph Geran, Ezekiel Gibbs, William Giles, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, William Golding, Paul Goodnight, Erma Gordon, L. T. Gordon, Robert Gordon, Russell Gordon, Rex Goreleigh, Bernard Goss, Joe Grant, Oscar Graves, Todd Gray, Annabelle Green, James Green, Jonathan Green, Robert Green, Donald Greene, Michael Greene, Joseph Grey, Charles Ron Griffin, Eugene Grigsby, Raymond Grist, Michael Gude, Ethel Guest, John Hailstalk, Charles Haines, Horathel Hall, Karl Hall, Wesley Hall, Edward Hamilton, Eva Hamlin-Miller, David Hammons, James Hampton, Phillip Hampton, Marvin Harden, Inge Hardison, John Hardrick, Edwin Harleston, William Harper, Hugh Harrell, Oliver Harrington, Gilbert Harris, Hollon Harris, John Harris, Scotland J. B. Harris, Warren Harris, Bessie Harvey, Maren Hassinger, Cynthia Hawkins (as Thelma), William Hawkins, Frank Hayden, Kitty Hayden, Palmer Hayden, William Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Anthony Haynes, Wilbur Haynie, Benjamin Hazard, June Hector, Dion Henderson, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, William Henderson, Barkley Hendricks, Gregory A. Henry, Robert Henry, Ernest Herbert, James Herring, Mark Hewitt, Leon Hicks, Renalda Higgins, Hector Hill, Felrath Hines, Alfred Hinton, Tim Hinton, Adrienne Hoard, Irwin Hoffman, Raymond Holbert, Geoffrey Holder, Robin Holder, Lonnie Holley, Alvin Hollingsworth, Eddie Holmes, Varnette Honeywood, Earl J. Hooks, Ray Horner, Paul Houzell, Helena Howard, Humbert Howard, John Howard, Mildred Howard, Raymond Howell, William Howell, Calvin Hubbard, Henry Hudson, Julien Hudson, James Huff, Manuel Hughes, Margo Humphrey, Raymond Hunt, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Elliott Hunter, Arnold Hurley, Bill Hutson, Zell Ingram, Sue Irons, A. B. Jackson, Gerald Jackson, Harlan Jackson, Hiram Jackson, May Jackson, Oliver Jackson, Robert Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Walter Jackson, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Bob James, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jasmin Joseph [as Joseph Jasmin], Archie Jefferson, Rosalind Jeffries, Noah Jemison, Barbara Fudge Jenkins, Florian Jenkins, Chester Jennings, Venola Jennings, Wilmer Jennings, Georgia Jessup, Johana, Daniel Johnson, Edith Johnson, Harvey Johnson, Herbert Johnson, Jeanne Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Marie Johnson-Calloway, Milton Derr (as Milton Johnson), Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Ben Jones, Calvin Jones, Dorcas Jones, Frank A. Jones, Frederick D. Jones, Jr. (as Frederic Jones), Henry B. Jones, Johnny Jones, Lawrence Arthur Jones, Leon Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Nathan Jones, Tonnie Jones, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Jack Jordan, Cliff Joseph, Ronald Joseph, Lemuel Joyner, Edward Judie, Michael Kabu, Arthur Kaufman, Charles Keck, Paul Keene, John Kendrick, Harriet Kennedy, Leon Kennedy, Joseph Kersey; Virginia Kiah, Henri King, James King, Gwendolyn Knight, Robert Knight, Lawrence Kolawole, Brenda Lacy, (Laura) Jean Lacy, Roy LaGrone, Artis Lane, Doyle Lane, Raymond Lark, Carolyn Lawrence, Jacob Lawrence, James Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Louis LeBlanc, James Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Lizetta LeFalle-Collins, Leon Leonard, Bruce LeVert, Edmonia Lewis, Edwin E. Lewis, Flora Lewis, James E. Lewis, Norman Lewis, Roy Lewis, Samella Lewis, Elba Lightfoot, Charles Lilly [as Lily], Arturo Lindsay, Henry Linton, Jules Lion, James Little, Marcia Lloyd, Tom Lloyd, Jon Lockard, Donald Locke, Lionel Lofton, Juan Logan, Bert Long, Willie Longshore, Edward Loper, Francisco Lord, Jesse Lott, Edward Love, Nina Lovelace, Whitfield Lovell, Alvin Loving, Ramon Loy, William Luckett, John Lutz, Don McAllister, Theadius McCall, Dindga McCannon, Edward McCluney, Jesse McCowan, Sam McCrary, Geraldine McCullough, Lawrence McGaugh, Charles McGee, Donald McIlvaine, Karl McIntosh, Joseph Mack, Edward McKay, Thomas McKinney, Alexander McMath, Robert McMillon, William McNeil, Lloyd McNeill, Clarence Major, William Majors, David Mann, Ulysses Marshall, Phillip Lindsay Mason, Lester Mathews, Sharon Matthews, William (Bill) Maxwell, Gordon Mayes, Marietta Mayes, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Victoria Meek, Leon Meeks, Yvonne Meo, Helga Meyer, Gaston Micheaux, Charles Mickens, Samuel Middleton, Onnie Millar, Aaron Miller, Algernon Miller, Don Miller, Earl Miller, Eva Hamlin Miller, Guy Miller, Julia Miller, Charles Milles, Armsted Mills, Edward Mills, Lev Mills, Priscilla Mills (P'lla), Carol Mitchell, Corinne Mitchell, Tyrone Mitchell, Arthur Monroe, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ronald Moody, Ted Moody, Frank Moore, Ron Moore, Sabra Moore, Theophilus Moore, William Moore, Leedell Moorehead, Scipio Moorhead, Clarence Morgan, Norma Morgan, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Patricia Morris, Keith Morrison, Lee Jack Morton, Jimmie Mosely, David Mosley, Lottie Moss, Archibald Motley, Hugh Mulzac, Betty Murchison, J. B. Murry, Teixera Nash, Inez Nathaniel, Frank Neal, George Neal, Jerome Neal, Robert Neal, Otto Neals, Robert Newsome, James Newton, Rochelle Nicholas, John Nichols, Isaac Nommo, Oliver Nowlin, Trudell Obey, Constance Okwumabua, Osira Olatunde, Kermit Oliver, Yaounde Olu, Ademola Olugebefola, Mary O'Neal, Haywood Oubré, Simon Outlaw, John Outterbridge, Joseph Overstreet, Carl Owens, Winnie Owens-Hart, Lorenzo Pace, William Pajaud, Denise Palm, James Pappas, Christopher Parks, James Parks, Louise Parks, Vera Parks, Oliver Parson, James Pate, Edgar Patience, John Payne, Leslie Payne, Sandra Peck, Alberto Pena, Angela Perkins, Marion Perkins, Michael Perry, Bertrand Phillips, Charles James Phillips, Harper Phillips, Ted Phillips, Delilah Pierce, Elijah Pierce, Harold Pierce, Anderson Pigatt, Stanley Pinckney, Howardena Pindell, Elliott Pinkney, Jerry Pinkney, Robert Pious, Adrian Piper, Horace Pippin, Betty Pitts, Stephanie Pogue, Naomi Polk, Charles Porter, James Porter, Georgette Powell, Judson Powell, Richard Powell, Daniel Pressley, Leslie Price, Ramon Price, Nelson Primus, Arnold Prince, E. (Evelyn?) Proctor, Nancy Prophet, Ronnie Prosser, William Pryor, Noah Purifoy, Florence Purviance, Martin Puryear, Mavis Pusey, Teodoro Ramos Blanco y Penita, Helen Ramsaran, Joseph Randolph; Thomas Range, Frank Rawlings, Jennifer Ray, Maxine Raysor, Patrick Reason, Roscoe Reddix, Junius Redwood, James Reed, Jerry Reed, Donald Reid, O. Richard Reid, Robert Reid, Leon Renfro, John Rhoden, Ben Richardson, Earle Richardson, Enid Richardson, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, Gregory Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Haywood Rivers, Arthur Roach, Malkia Roberts, Royal Robertson, Aminah Robinson, Charles Robinson, John N. Robinson, Peter L. Robinson, Brenda Rogers, Charles Rogers, Herbert Rogers, Juanita Rogers, Sultan Rogers, Bernard Rollins, Henry Rollins, Arthur Rose, Charles Ross, James Ross, Nellie Mae Rowe, Sandra Rowe, Nancy Rowland, Winfred Russsell, Mahler Ryder, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Charles Sallee, JoeSam., Marion Sampler, Bert Samples, Juan Sanchez, Eve Sandler, Walter Sanford, Floyd Sapp, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, Ann Sawyer, Sydney Schenck, Vivian Schuyler Key, John Scott (Johnny) , John Tarrell Scott, Joyce Scott, William Scott, Charles Searles, Charles Sebree, Bernard Sepyo, Bennie Settles, Franklin Shands, Frank Sharpe, Christopher Shelton, Milton Sherrill, Thomas Sills, Gloria Simmons, Carroll Simms, Jewell Simon, Walter Simon, Coreen Simpson, Ken Simpson, Merton Simpson, William Simpson, Michael Singletary (as Singletry), Nathaniel Sirles, Margaret Slade (Kelley), Van Slater, Louis Sloan, Albert A. Smith, Alfred J. Smith, Alvin Smith, Arenzo Smith, Damballah Dolphus Smith, Floyd Smith, Frank Smith, George Smith, Howard Smith, John Henry Smith, Marvin Smith, Mary T. Smith, Sue Jane Smith, Vincent Smith, William Smith, Zenobia Smith, Rufus Snoddy, Sylvia Snowden, Carroll Sockwell, Ben Solowey, Edgar Sorrells, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, Shirley Stark, David Stephens, Lewis Stephens, Walter Stephens, Erik Stephenson, Nelson Stevens, Mary Stewart, Renée Stout, Edith Strange, Thelma Streat, Richard Stroud, Dennis Stroy, Charles Suggs, Sharon Sulton, Johnnie Swearingen, Earle Sweeting, Roderick Sykes, Clarence Talley, Ann Tanksley, Henry O. Tanner, James Tanner, Ralph Tate, Carlton Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Janet Taylor Pickett, Lawrence Taylor, William (Bill) Taylor, Herbert Temple, Emerson Terry, Evelyn Terry, Freida Tesfagiorgis, Alma Thomas, Charles Thomas, James "Son Ford" Thomas, Larry Erskine Thomas, Matthew Thomas, Roy Thomas, William Thomas (a.k.a. Juba Solo), Conrad Thompson, Lovett Thompson, Mildred Thompson, Phyllis Thompson, Bob Thompson, Russ Thompson, Dox Thrash, Mose Tolliver, William Tolliver, Lloyd Toone, John Torres, Elaine Towns, Bill Traylor, Charles Tucker, Clive Tucker, Yvonne Edwards Tucker, Charlene Tull, Donald Turner, Leo Twiggs, Alfred Tyler, Anna Tyler, Barbara Tyson Mosley, Bernard Upshur, Jon Urquhart, Florestee Vance, Ernest Varner, Royce Vaughn, George Victory, Harry Vital, Ruth Waddy, Annie Walker, Charles Walker, Clinton Walker, Earl Walker, Lawrence Walker, Raymond Walker [a.k.a. Bo Walker], William Walker, Bobby Walls, Daniel Warburg, Eugene Warburg, Denise Ward-Brown, Evelyn Ware, Laura Waring, Masood Ali Warren, Horace Washington, James Washington, Mary Washington, Timothy Washington, Richard Waters, James Watkins, Curtis Watson, Howard Watson, Willard Watson, Richard Waytt, Claude Weaver, Stephanie Weaver, Clifton Webb, Derek Webster, Edward Webster, Albert Wells, James Wells, Roland Welton, Barbara Wesson, Pheoris West, Lamonte Westmoreland, Charles White, Cynthia White, Franklin White, George White, J. Philip White, Jack White (sculptor), Jack White (painter), John Whitmore, Jack Whitten, Garrett Whyte, Benjamin Wigfall, Bertie Wiggs, Deborah Wilkins, Timothy Wilkins, Billy Dee Williams, Chester Williams, Douglas Williams, Frank Williams, George Williams, Gerald Williams, Jerome Williams, Jose Williams, Laura Williams, Matthew Williams, Michael K. Williams, Pat Ward Williams, Randy Williams, Roy Lee Williams, Todd Williams, Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Yvonne Williams, Philemona Williamson, Stan Williamson, Luster Willis, A. B. Wilson, Edward Wilson, Ellis Wilson, Fred Wilson, George Wilson, Henry Wilson, John Wilson, Stanley C. Wilson, Linda Windle, Eugene Winslow, Vernon Winslow, Cedric Winters, Viola Wood, Hale Woodruff, Roosevelt Woods, Shirley Woodson, Beulah Woodard, Bernard Wright, Dmitri Wright, Estella Viola Wright, George Wright, Richard Wyatt, Frank Wyley, Richard Yarde, James Yeargans, Joseph Yoakum, Bernard Young, Charles Young, Clarence Young, Kenneth Young, Milton Young.

TUCSON (AZ). Tucson Museum of Art.

Sculpture Retrospective, 1974-1984.

1984.

Group exhibition. Included: Donald Locke.

Locke studied art in London, Corsham Bath and Edinburgh. During the 1970s, he lived and worked in London. In 1979 Locke was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and he became artist in residence at Arizona State University.  He lived with his wife Brenda in Arizona until 1990 when they moved to Georgia, making Atlanta their home.

Locke received international acclaim for his extensive body of work, exhibiting in biennials and solo shows including Sao Paulo, Brazil; Medellin, Colombia; Cuenca, Ecuador; Budapest, Hungary; Faenza, Italy; V&A; Museum, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Nottingham, UK; Aljira Art Gallery, Newark, NJ; Biennial Atlanta, GA; Master Artist Series, Atlanta,GA;  Studio Museum of Harlem, NY. His gallery shows include Nexus, City Gallery East, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ.  He is represented by Skoto Gallery in NY and the Stella Jones Art Gallery in New Orleans.

He may be best known in the UK for his group of paintings and sculptures The Plantation Series - forms held in strict lines and grids, connected as if with chains or a series of bars, analogous he has said, to the system whereby one group of people are kept in economic and political subjugation by another. 

Disillusioned with the slow progress of his career in the UK, he moved to America in 1979 when he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.  In 1990 he moved from Arizona to Atlanta, where the work of African-American vernacular artists made a dramatic impact on him. 

Locke began painting in 1947 under ER Burrowes, MBE, in the Working People's Art Class in Georgetown, Guyana. Awarded a British Council Scholarship in 1954, he studied at Bath Academy of Art in Wiltshire, England. In 1959 he was awarded a Guyana Government Award to Edinburgh University, Scotland.

During the following eleven years spent in the Southwest, Locke was known for his figurative sculptures in bronze and for his series of articles on the contemporary art of the Southwest in Artspace magazine, for which he was Arizona correspondent. In 1982 he was art critic for New Times, a weekly news and arts journal in Phoenix. His art criticism has also appeared in Arts Magazine.

The first wife was the painter and ceramicist Lelia Locke, with whom he had 3 children - the eldest of which is UK sculptor Hew Locke whose exhibition Kingdom of the Blind at Rivington Place was presented by Iniva in 2008.