Duane Locke’s erudition gave him an intense and exalted appreciation of the arts. His paintings show the influence of a life spent as a poet and a professor of literature, as each one is based on literary references. He thinks of his art not as mimetic, but as music. Locke said, “I paint to be heard,” but he also intended for his paintings to be seen. Fifty two-by-four feet plywood paintings made up his Art Garden. Mounted on two-by-fours, these images rose from the ground like totems in the yard beside his Tampa home.