Well known Jamaican sculptor Christopher
Francis-Gonzalez is dead.
Mr. Gonzalez died Saturday in the Cornwall
Regional Hospital
in Montego Bay after a long illness.
He was 65 years old.
Mr. Gonzalez who was considered a premier artist in his time will be remembered for his 1983 monument of cultural hero and reggae star, Bob Marley.
The monument drew on popular and Rastafarian imagery shows the hero like a massive tree with roots reaching into the ground, his locks like sinuous branches and his face agonized, with mouth open in prophetic song.
The sculpture can be viewed in the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston.
Mr. Gonzalez leaves widow Champayne Clarke-Gonzalez and six children.
He was 65 years old.
Mr. Gonzalez who was considered a premier artist in his time will be remembered for his 1983 monument of cultural hero and reggae star, Bob Marley.
The monument drew on popular and Rastafarian imagery shows the hero like a massive tree with roots reaching into the ground, his locks like sinuous branches and his face agonized, with mouth open in prophetic song.
The sculpture can be viewed in the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston.
Mr. Gonzalez leaves widow Champayne Clarke-Gonzalez and six children.