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American
(1943–2013)
Free At Last, Free At Last (Frog Demons Escaping the End of the World)
2005
Earthenware
21.5 x 14.75 x 12 in.
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
2008.11
The title of this piece consciously refers to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech from 1963. More than four decades later, Gilhooly echoes these words ironically to convey a sense of doom in this apocalyptic scene. While Gilhooly created his first frog work as a student in the 1960s, over the course of his career he has sculpted an entire civilization comprised entirely of frogs. Here, however, the frog world meets a catastrophic end as demons emerge from molten craters on a globe balanced atop a classical column.
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