I met Mr. Dial while making a film entitled "The Quiltmakers of Gee's Bend." Admittedly I'm no art expert, or collector. My background includes 20 plus years in non-fiction filmmaking and writing.

Thornton Dial was a pioneering African-American artist best known for his large-scale assemblage paintings. View Thornton Dial’s 262 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, ...

Thornton Dial, a self-taught artist whose works with everyday materials spoke to the difficulty of black life in the South, challenged the art world’s answer to that question. Dial died on ...

Jane Fonda Selling Thornton Dial Collected Artworks at Christie’s (Exclusive) The actress and activist is auctioning off 14 pieces in the outsider and vernacular art sale on Jan. 18.

"Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial" What: An exhibit of more than 40 large-scale, politically charged paintings, drawings and sculptures by one of America's premier self-taught artists.

Thornton Dial, a sharecropper’s son who for decades spent his spare time soldering scrap metal, ... “I’d never seen any artist’s works,” Mr. Dial told the Times in 1997.

Thornton Dial was a pioneering African-American artist best known for his large-scale assemblage paintings. View Thornton Dial’s 247 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, ...

Self-taught artist Thornton Dial, who transformed discarded junk into sculpture and painted in bright colors and bold lines, has died at his home in Alabama. He was 87. Maria May, of the African ...

Vernacular artist Thornton Dial lived and made art in McCalla, Ala. The LSU Museum of Art will feature some 70 of his works in the exhibit, 'I, Too, Am Thornton Dial.' ...