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Thornton Dial (b. 1928, Emelle, AL; d. 2016, McCalla, AL) transcended the circumstances of his birth to become a significant figure in the world of contemporary American art with the creation of drawings, assemblages, sculptures, and installations. His artistic legacy is testament both to the uniqueness of the African-American experience and the universal nature of the human condition.Thornton Dial was born and raised in rural Emelle and began full-time work at the age of five, picking cotton and handling mules in the western flatlands of Alabama. Over the course of his life, he did “every kind of work a man can do” including carpentry, painting, construction, welding, plumbing, iron and steel work, and a thirty-year stint making train cars at Pullman-Standard in Bessemer, AL. He was by his own characterization, “a working man” and these cumulative experiences would be essential to the artist he became.Studying Dial’s artistic output is akin to reading a more inclusive version of modern American history that traces the shared experiences of many African-Americans of his generation: sharecropping in the Black Belt, the Great Migration from rural to urban centers, the civil rights movement, the ethnic conundrums of a rapidly changing postmodern

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Past Exhibition

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  BLACK MATRIARCH

  Clementine Hunter (1886/87–1988)

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  SATURDAY NIGHT

  Clementine Hunter (1886/87–1988)

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  STRIP VARIATION QUILT

  Mozell Benson (b. 1934)

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  DIAMOND STRIP QUILT

  Lucinda Toomer (1888/90–1983)

Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the Collection

February 8–September 4, 2005

• American Folk Art Museum
• 2 Lincoln Square, New York City
• Free Admission
• Open Today 11:30-6:00 pm