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, 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 ...

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.

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.

Alabama artist Thornton Dial was honored by actor Hill Harper and the city of Bessemer during the 5th Annual Bob Sykes BBQ & Blues Festival in Bessemer, Ala., Saturday, May 31, 2014.

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 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, ...

"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.

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.' ...