Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Dial, Sr., Thornton |
Title |
Ethyl and Lucy, The People Loved Lucy |
Medium |
watercolor and pencil on paper |
Date |
1990 |
Description |
Thornton Dial, Sr. (Emelle, Alabama 1928-2016 McCalla, Alabama) Ethyl and Lucy, The People Loved Lucy, 1990 Watercolor and pencil on paper 30 x 22 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2010 gift of Calynne and Lou Hill Dial, of Bessemer, Alabama, is the most famous vernacular artist from the Southeast. His art is prized for its originality, emotional impact, and symbolic reflection on the African American experience in the South from the Jim Crow years through the civil-rights movement, and into the present. Although Dial is well known for his large found object sculptures, during the last two decades watercolor painting has become his primary artistic outlet. His distinctive method involves applying loose washes of watercolor pigment over symbolic human and animal figures outlined in pencil. |
Catalog Number |
2010.13.02 |
Search Terms |
Pencil works Watercolors Drawings Paintings Paper Mixed media works |
Credit line |
Gift of Calynne and Lou Hill |