Salacia / Michele Oka Doner
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.467
- Title
- Salacia
- Artist
- Michele Oka Doner
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Medium and Support
- cast bronze
- Object Creation Date
- 2008
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Dimensions
- 195.58 cm x 68.58 cm x 81.28 cm (77 in. x 27 in. x 32 in.)
- Primary Object Classification
- Sculpture
- Primary Object Type
- outdoor sculpture
- Secondary Object Classification
- Sculpture
- Secondary Object Type
- abstract sculpture
- Physical Description
- Large bronze sculpture resembling a headless human figure. The surface texture is very rough with deep voids and coarse patches of metal. The brown patina has areas with a greenish tinge.
- Subject Matter
- This is one of three Doner sculptures installed together- Angry Neptune, Salacia and Strider.
- "Salacia, in Roman mythology, is Neptune's wife. According to the legend, the god Neptune wanted to marry her and she ran off and hid in the Atlantic Ocean. Neptune sent a dolphin to find her."
- Michele Oka Doner, Oct. 6, 2010
- Doner began her Angry Neptune sculpture first and then while that remained in her studio, she began a companion piece, "to create a pairing of opposites from the imagined underwater kingdom."
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2592 x 3888
- File Size
- 721 KB
- Record
- 2009/1.467
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-1.467/2009_1.467.jpg
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"Salacia; Michele Oka Doner." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-1.467/2009_1.467.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.
