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Thornton Dial Biography
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2013
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Thornton Dial: Daybreak. Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta (*with works by Dial family members)
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2013
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Seismic Shifts: Ten Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture. National Academy Museum & School, New York, NY
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2012 - 2013
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Thoughts on Paper. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (solo)
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2011 - 2013
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Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial. Indianapolis Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (solo)
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2012
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Thornton Dial: Viewpoint of the Foundry Man, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2012
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Thornton Dial, Virginia Union University and Art Gallery, Richmond, VA (solo)
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2012
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Thornton Dial and Lizzi Bougatsos, James Fuentes, New York, NY
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2012
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The Soul of a City: Memphis Collects African American Art. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
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2012
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Creation Story: Gee’s Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial. The Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
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2011
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The Armory Show, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
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2011
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Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2011
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Disaster Areas, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo)
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2005
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Thornton Dial in the 21st Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (solo)
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2002 - 2004
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In the Spirit of Martin, Smithsonian Institution, traveling
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2000
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Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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1999
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Thornton Dial: His Spoken Dreams, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1998
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Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology, Philadelphia Museum, PA
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1993
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Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; American Folk Art Museum, New York; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI (solo)
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1992
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Thornton Dial: Works on Paper, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1991
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Thornton Dial, Sr.: Works on Paper, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1990
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Thornton Dial: Strategy of the World. Southern Queens Park Association/African-American Hall of Fame, Jamaica, NY (solo)
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1990
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Thornton Dial. Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo)
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1990
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Dial: Ladies of the United States. Library Art Gallery, Kennesaw State College, Marietta, GA (solo)
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
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Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
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Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
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The Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
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High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
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Indianapolis Museum of Art
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
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New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
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| Literature |
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2012
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Thornton Dial: Viewpoint of the Foundry Man. catalogue, Andrew Edlin Gallery
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2012
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Creation Story: Gee's Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial. catalogue, Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville
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2011
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Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper. edited by Bernard L. Herman, Ackland Art Museum and University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
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2011
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Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial. catalogue, Prestel
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2011
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Kuspit, Donald. Review, Art Forum, Summer
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2011
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Wilkin, Karen. “Biography, History, Self-Evident Beauty.” The Wall Street Journal, April 21
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2011
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Doran, Anne. Review, Time Out New York, April 14-20
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2011
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Review, The New Yorker, April 11
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2011
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Lacayo, Richard. “Outside the Lines.” Time, March 14
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2011
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Kino, Carol. “Letting His Life’s Work Do the Talking.” New York Times, February 20
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2011
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Gómez, Edward M. “On the Border.” Art & Antiques Magazine, February
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2010
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Jones, Phillip March. “Thornton Dial, Sr.” Whitehot Magazine, February
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2009
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Outsider Art Sourcebook. Raw Vision
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2005
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Thornton Dial in the 21st Century, catalogue, Tinwood
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2002
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Giovanni, Nikki; Chassman, Gary Miles; Leonard, Walter. In the Spirit of Martin, Tinwood Books
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2001
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American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum. catalogue
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2000 - 2001
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Souls Grown Deep. Volumes 1 and 2, Arnett et al
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1997
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Smith, Dinitia, “Bits, Pieces and a Drive To Turn Them Into Art.” New York Times, February 5
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1993
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Smith, Roberta. “A Young Style for an Old Story.” New York Times, December 19
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1993
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Scott, Sue. “Thornton Dial [exhibition review].” ARTnews 92, April
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1993
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Lloyd, Ann Wilson. “Thornton Dial at Luise Ross.” Art in America, May
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1993
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Passionate Visions of the American South, Self Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, New Orleans Museum of Art
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1993
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20th Century American Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Art, Neal-Schuman Publishers
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1991
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Kuspit, Donald. “The Appropriation of Marginal Art in the 1980s.” American Art, Winter/Spring
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1990
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Museum of Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists. Abbeville Press
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1987
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Kroll, Jack. “The Outsiders Are In: American Folk Artists Move into the World of Money and Fame.” Newsweek, December 2
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