- Collection:
- Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012
- Title:
- Untitled
- Creator:
- Dial, Thornton
- Date of Original:
- 2001
- Subject:
- Drawing--United States
Folk art--United States
African American folk art--United States
Drawing--Alabama
Folk art--Alabama
African American folk art--Alabama
Human figure in art
Tiger
Flowers in art
Women in art
Kreisberg, Louisa--Art collections
Drawing, American - People:
- Kreisberg, Louisa
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
- Medium:
- mixed media
paper - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Painting on paper by Thornton Dial.
Dial is a prolific self-taught artist who creates works of unique formal and symbolic complexity. Dial has spent his life in and around the city of Bessemer, Alabama. He began making art after retiring from his job building railroad boxcars at the local Pullman-Standard factory. Dial is one of few contemporary folk artists whose choices of media and subject matter continue to expand and evolve. Of his own work, he has stated "Art ain't about paint. It ain't about canvas. It's about ideas. Too many people died without ever getting their mind out of the world. I have found how to get my ideas out and I won't stop. I got ten thousand left."
Gift of Louisa Kreisberg to the Tubman African American Museum. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tbmn_sftm_tm04132011-38
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sftm/do:tm04132011-38
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact the Tubman African American Museum re: reproduction and usage. The information contained in this resource may not be re-purposed, reproduced, quoted without proper citation, or offered for sale in any form without the express written permission of the Tubman African American Museum.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 painting on paper : mixed media ; 77 x 56 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Tubman African-American Museum
- Rights:
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