A folk artist who does paintings, assemblage and sculpture, Thornton Dial, Sr., known as Buck, spent his life in Alabama, where he married, had three sons and two daughters and lived in Bessemer. He... Read full biography
A folk artist who does paintings, assemblage and sculpture, Thornton Dial, Sr., known as Buck, spent his life in Alabama, where he married, had three sons and two daughters and lived in Bessemer. He was the "patriarch" of a clan of noted folk artists including his son, Thornton Dial Jr., known as... Read full biography
A folk artist who does paintings, assemblage and sculpture, Thornton Dial, Sr., known as Buck, spent his life in Alabama, where he married, had three sons and two daughters and lived in Bessemer. He was the "patriarch" of a clan of noted folk artists including his son, Thornton Dial Jr., known as "Little Buck", and Richard Dial. His art emanates from his concerns about racial and male/female relationships in America, with assemblages representing "what makes up the world as he sees it"... Read full biography
A folk artist who does paintings, assemblage and sculpture, Thornton Dial, Sr., known as Buck, spent his life in Alabama, where he married, had three sons and two daughters and lived in Bessemer. He was the "patriarch" of a clan of noted folk artists including his son, Thornton Dial Jr., known as "Little Buck", and Richard Dial. His art emanates from his concerns about racial and male/female relationships in America, with assemblages representing "what makes up the world as he sees it" (Rosenak, 102) and expresses his feelings about conflict and harmony and the importance of community. His work reflects his special concern about the struggle of blacks in white-dominated society. Of his expression, he says: "I make art that ain't spaking... Read full biography
A folk artist who does paintings, assemblage and sculpture, Thornton Dial, Sr., known as Buck, spent his life in Alabama, where he married, had three sons and two daughters and lived in Bessemer. He was the "patriarch" of a clan of noted folk artists including his son, Thornton Dial Jr., known as "Little Buck", and Richard Dial. His art emanates from his concerns about racial and male/female relationships in America, with assemblages representing "what makes up the world as he sees it" (Rosenak, 102) and expresses his feelings about conflict and harmony and the importance of community. His work reflects his special concern about the struggle of blacks in white-dominated society. Of his expression, he says: "I make art that ain't spaking against nobody or for nobody neither. Sometimes it be about what is wrong in life. I do t... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (10)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South: The Ronald and June Shelp Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Conwill, Kinshasha, et. all
192 pages (color)
The Other Side of Color: African-American Art in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr.
2001
Driskell, David
240 pages (color)
Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas
1998
Taha, Halima
270 pages (color)
St. James Guide to Black Artists: Published in Association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
1997
Riggs, Thomas (Editor); Howard Dobson (Preface)
625 pages
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
Contemporary American Folk Art A Collectors's Guide
1996
Rosenak, Chuck and Jan
320 pages (color)
A World of Their Own: Twentieth Century American Folk Art (Newark Museum)
1995
Jacobs, Joseph
88 pages (color)
Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists