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Dial, Thornton (American painter and sculptor, 1928-2016)
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Note: Dial began creating art from found objects in the 1980s. In 1987, he began painting full-time. His work explores relationships between races, between men and women, and between God and people. His children and other family members are also artists. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Some sources give his birth place as Bessemer, Alabama. A steelworker for thirty years, Thornton Dial created painted objects for much of his life before turning to works on canvases in 1987. A self-taught folk artist, Dial built up different mediums on his canvases, and he depicted a mix of human and animal forms. Throughout his works, Dial referenced moments in Black history such as the middle passage and the Los Angeles riots of 1992. |
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Dial, Thornton (preferred,U,index,LC) |
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Dial, Thorton (V,display) |
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Thornton Dial, Sr. (V) |
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Dial, Thornton, Sr. (V) |
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Thornton Dial (U) |
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Thorton Dial (V) |
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American (preferred) |
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African American |
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Black |
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artist (preferred) |
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painter |
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sculptor |
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naive artist |
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assemblage artist |
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Dial, Richard, Jr. |
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(American artist, born 1978) [500033157] |
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Dial, Thornton, III |
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(American artist, born 1973) [500033155] |
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Dial, Dan |
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(American artist, born 1960) [500033159] |
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Dial, Mattie |
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(American artist, born 1957) [500033158] |
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Dial, Richard |
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(American sculptor, born 1955) [500033156] |
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Dial, Thornton, Jr. |
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(American painter and sculptor, born 1953) [500033154] |
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Dial, Carlos |
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(American artist, born 1975) [500033162] |
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Lockett, Ronald |
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(American painter and naive artist, born 1965) [500033160] |
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Dial, Arthur |
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(American painter, born 1930) [500033161] |
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Biographies:
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(American painter and sculptor, 1928-2016) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American painter, born 1928) ..... [ARTstor]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American folk artist, 1928-2016) ..... [VP]
(American institution, 1928-2016) ..... [MoMA]
(American artist, born 1928) ..... [MoMA]
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Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (2009-) accessed 2 July 2019
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Artcyclopedia [online]
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Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-) http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/43559
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Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n93020441
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Getty Vocabulary Program rules
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Gordon, Flying Free (1997) 100; 342
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Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
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Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n93020441
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Maresca and Ricco, American Self-Taught (1993) 53
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MoMA, Spreadsheet of artist authority designations (2019-) 43559
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Sellen and Johanson, 20th Century American Folk (1993) 342
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SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context [online] (2018-) 61751429 | | | | | | | | | | | |
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