Thornton Dial

Thornton Dial (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la silimiin goli September biɛɣ'pishi ayi ka dali yuuni 1928 ka daa kpi silimiin goli January biɛɣ'pishi ni anu dali yuuni 2016) daa nyɛla Americanima nucheeni baŋda ka nyɛ niriba pam ni daa baŋ so yuuni 1980s bahigu.

Maŋmaŋ biɛhigu
Thornton nyɛla ŋun daa kpuɣi Clara Mae Murrow yuuni 1951. O nyɛla ŋun daa mali bihi ata ban nyɛ dabba pɔi ka daa kpi, Thornton Jr., Richard n-ti pahi Dan ni bia yino ŋɔ nyɛ paɣa, Matte Dial, o daa nyɛla ŋun mali yaansi. Clara Mae Dial daa kpi la yuuni 2005.

 Exhibitions 
Dial's tuma nyɛla din niŋ gili United States tum yuuni 1990. Museum exhibitions nyɛ din doli na ŋɔ:

2022

 Called To Create: Black Artists of the American South, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 18, 2022 – March 26, 2023.

2019 
Home is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2019 
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2018 
History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2017 
Revelations: Art From the African American South, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Self-Taught Genius, organized by the American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY, travelled to Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; New Orleans
Third Space/Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art, The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Inside the Outside: Five Self Taught Artists from the William Louis Dreyfus Foundation, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; The Baker Museum
Known / Unknown: Private Obsession and Hidden Desire in Outsider Art, Museum of Sex, New York, NY

2016 
Green Pastures: In Memory of Thornton Dial Sr., High Museum of Art, Atlanta

2015 
I See Myself in You: Selections from the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Social Geographies: Interpreting Space and Place, curated by Leisa Rundquist, Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC

2014 
When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2011-13
Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial, Indianapolis Museum of Art (organizing museum); New Orleans Museum of Art, The Mint Museum, and the High Museum of Art
Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (organizing museum); Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama; and the Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee.

2005
Thornton Dial in the 21st Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2002-2004
In the Spirit of Martin, Smithsonian Institution
2000 
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Thornton Dial: Drawings, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY, May 11 - June 24, 2000

1998 
Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology, Philadelphia Museum

1997 
The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992 - 1996, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1993 
Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; American Folk Art Museum, New York; American Center, Paris
Passionate Visions of the American South: Self -Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans

 Public collections 
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Atlanta, GA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
de Young Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Gadsden Arts Center and Museum
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TXChinese American artist. Thornton Dial Sr. mfah.org 
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Studio Museum, Harlem
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Virginia Union University, Richmond, VA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Public art
Road to the Mountaintop (sculpture) (2014), Nashville, TN
The Bridge (sculpture) (1997), Atlanta, GA

 Further reading 
 Selected publications 
Revelations: Art from the African American South, catalog, San Francisco: de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Prestel. (2017)
History Refused to Die, catalog, Alabama Contemporary Art Center (2015)
Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper, Ackland Art Museum and UNC Press (2012)
Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial, catalog, Prestel (2011)
"Outsider Art Sourcebook", Raw Vision (2009) 
Thornton Dial in the 21st Century, catalog, Tinwood (2005)
American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum, catalog (2001)
Souls Grown Deep, Volumes 1 & 2, Arnett et al. (2000 & 2001)
Passionate Visions of the American South, Self Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, New Orleans Museum of Art (1993)
American Self-Taught, Maresca & Ricco (1993)
Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger, Baraka & McEvilly (1993)
20th Century American Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Art, Neal-Schuman Publishers (1993)
Museum of Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists, Abbeville Press (1990)

 Bibliography 
Sarah Cascone, "Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Acquire 62 Works by African American Artists Including Purvis Young, Thornton Dial Highlights include nine pieces by Thornton Dial." Artnet, February 7, 2017.
Corral, Alexis, "15 Blockbuster Gallery Shows You Need to See in New York This May." Artsy, April 29, 2016
Reid, Zachary, "VMFA adds 18 works, including nine from African-American artists", Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 21, 2016
Bernard Herman, "Thornton Dial (1928-2016)." Artforum, February 18, 2016.  
Valentine, Victoria, "After His Work Enters Met Museum Collection, Thornton Dial Joins New York Gallery", Culture Type, November 24, 2015
Artspace Editors, "10 Artists to Watch This November", Artspace, October 30, 2015 
Kennedy, Randy, "Boesky Gallery to Represent Thornton Dial", ArtsBeat, The New York Times, October 20, 2015
Gomez, Edward, "From the Deep South, an Overlooked Chapter in Art History", Hyperalleric, January 24, 2015
Sellman, James, "Truly Transformative: Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gifts 57 Works of Art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art", Folk Art Messenger, Winter 2015
Williams, Paige, "The Met Embraces Neglected Southern Artists", The New Yorker, December 4, 2014
Williams, Paige, "Composition in Black and White", The New Yorker, August 12, 2013
McCash, Doug, "Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial a must-see at NOMA", The Times-Picayune, March 1, 2012
Wilkin, Karen, "The Best of 2011", The Wall Street Journal, December 23, 2011
Sellman, James "Truth and Consequences: the 25-Year Friendship of Thornton Dial and Bill Arnett", Folk Art Messenger, Summer 2011
Kuspit, Donald, Review, Art Forum, Summer 2011
Wilkin, Karen, "Biography, History, Self-Evident Beauty", The Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2011
Doran, Anne, Review, Time Out New York, April 14–20, 2011
Review, The New Yorker, April 11, 2011
Lacayo, Richard, "Outside the Lines", Time, March 14, 2011 
Kino, Carol, "Letting His Life’s Work Do the Talking", The New York Times, February 17, 2011
Gómez, Edward M., "On the Border", Art & Antiques Magazine, February 2011
Jones, Phillip March, "Thornton Dial, Sr.", Whitehot Magazine, February 2010
Giovanni, Nikki; Chassman, Gary Miles; Leonard, Walter, "In the Spirit of Martin", Tinwood Books 2002
Smith, Dinitia, "Bits, Pieces and a Drive To Turn Them Into Art," New York Times, February 5, 1997
Smith, Roberta, "A Young Style for an Old Story," New York Times, December 19, 1993
Scott, Sue, "Thornton Dial [exhibition review]," ARTnews 92, April 1993
Lloyd, Ann Wilson, "Thornton Dial at Luise Ross," Art in America, May 1993
Kuspit, Donald, "The Appropriation of Marginal Art in the 1980s," American Art, Winter/Spring 1991
Kroll, Jack, "The Outsiders Are In: American Folk Artists Move into the World of Money and Fame," Newsweek, December 2, 1987

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