Vintage Watercolor Charcoal by Thornton Dial

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Thornton Dial, Sr.
Vintage Watercolor Charcoal by Thornton Dial
1997

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Rare works on paper by famous artist Thornton Dial. Comes Unframed in its original grey linen matte and plastic cover. The piece has not been unpackaged since the 90’s Wonderful for the serious art collector and lover! Artist: Thornton Dial , SR Watercolor From the New York Times: Thornton Dial, a self-taught artist whose paintings and assemblages fashioned from scavenged materials told the story of black struggle in the South and found their way to the permanent collections of major museums, died on Monday at his home in McCalla, Ala. He was 87. His death was confirmed by family members. Mr. Dial, the illiterate son of an unwed teenage mother, spent much of his childhood in rural poverty in western Alabama and, after moving to Bessemer, an industrial suburb of Birmingham, labored at a wide variety of occupations, all the while making works from castoff materials that he came to think of as art only when he was in his 50s. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Mr. Dial's America, David Lewis Gallery, New York 2016 Thornton Dial: We All Live Under the Same Old Flag, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 2015 Thornton Dial: Works on Paper, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 2014 Thornton Dial, Independent Projects, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY 2011 - 2013 Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA 2012 Thornton Dial: Viewpoint of the Foundry Man, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY Thornton Dial, Virginia Union University and Art Gallery, Richmond, VA Thoughts on Paper, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC; Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 2011 Thornton Dial, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Thornton Dial in the 21st Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX 1999 Thornton Dial: His Spoken Dreams, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY 1993 Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; American Folk Art Museum, New York; American Center, Paris, France 1992 Thornton Dial: Works on Paper, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY 1991 Thornton Dial, Sr.: Works on Paper, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY 1990 Thornton Dial: Strategy of the World, Southern Queens Park Association/African-American Hall of Fame, Jamaica, NY Thornton Dial, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA Thornton Dial: Ladies of the United States, Library Art Gallery, Kennesaw State College, Marietta, GA GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 An Alternative Canon: Art Dealers Collecting Outsider Art, curated by Paul Laster, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY 2019 Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY 2018 Beverly Buchanan, Thornton Dial and the Gee's Bend Quiltmakers, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2017-18 Revelations: Art from the African-American South, De Young Museum of Art, San Francisco 2016-17 Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC, Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY 2014 When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Social Geographies: Interpreting Space and Place, curated by Leisa Rundquist, Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC 2013 Seismic Shifts: Ten Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture, National Academy Museum & School, New York, NY 2012 Thornton Dial and Lizzi Bougatsos, James Fuentes, New York, NY The Soul of a City: Memphis Collects African American Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN Creation Story: Gee’s Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial, The Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN 2011 All Folked Up! Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY The Armory Show, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY 2002-04 In the Spirit of Martin, Smithsonian Institution, traveling exhibition 2000 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1998 Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology, Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA SELECTED BOOKS & CATALOGUES 2012 Thornton Dial: Viewpoint of the Foundry Man, catalogue, Andrew Edlin Gallery. Creation Story: Gee's Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial, Nashville: Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Vanderbilt University Press, Print. In 1987, Lonnie Holley, a self-taught artist living in Birmingham, showed William Arnett, an Atlanta collector interested in Southern folk art, one of Mr. Dial’s decorated fish lures. The two men went to see Mr. Dial, who, once he realized what Mr. Arnett was looking for, pulled a painted, welded-steel sculpture topped by a stylized steel turkey out of a turkey coop. “I knew I was witnessing something great coming out of that turkey coop,” Mr. Arnett said in a statement issued by the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, which he established to preserve and document African-American vernacular art. “I didn’t know at the time that it wasn’t simply the sculpture that was special. The man who had created it was a great man, and he would go on to become recognized as one of America’s greatest artists. I can’t think of any important artist who has started with less or accomplished more.”

Creator:
Thornton Dial, Sr. (1928, American)
Creation Year:
1997
Dimensions:
Height: 33 in (83.82 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Medium:
Watercolor
Movement & Style:
Abstract
Period:
1990-1999
Framing:
Framing Options Available
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Palm Beach, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU138126945762