“..A self-taught artist, Dial began constructing sculpture and assemblage with found scrap materials and objects from his job as a metalworker... ” ...

Thornton Dial was a pioneering African-American artist best known for his large-scale assemblage paintings. He melded complex themes like Civil Rights history, archaeology, and construction, through ...

Thornton Dial, Jr. is a contemporary African-American painter, sculptor, and assemblage artist living and working in Bessemer, Alabama. He is the eldest son of prolific modern artist, Thornton Dial Sr ...