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Property from the Ronald and June Shelp Collection
THORNTON DIAL (1928-2016)
Rolling Mill: Steel is the Master, Lady is the Power
Details
THORNTON DIAL (1928-2016)
Rolling Mill: Steel is the Master, Lady is the Power
signed with artist's initials 'TD' (on the overlap); signed with initials again (on the reverse)
enamel, garden hoses, rope, steel springs, found metal objects and industrial sealing compound on canvas mounted on wood
71 x 72 ½ x 3 ½ in. (180.3 x 184.2 x 8.9 cm.)
Executed in 1992.
Rolling Mill: Steel is the Master, Lady is the Power
signed with artist's initials 'TD' (on the overlap); signed with initials again (on the reverse)
enamel, garden hoses, rope, steel springs, found metal objects and industrial sealing compound on canvas mounted on wood
71 x 72 ½ x 3 ½ in. (180.3 x 184.2 x 8.9 cm.)
Executed in 1992.
Provenance
William S. Arnett, Atlanta
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 1993
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 1993
Literature
C. Russell, et al., Sacred and Profane, Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art, Jackson, 2007, pp. 179 and 186.
Exhibited
New York, New Museum and New York, American Folk Art Museum, Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger, November 1993-January 1994, p. 141 (illustrated).
New Orleans Museum of Art; University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley; San Diego Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art and Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Passionate Visions of the American South, Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, October 1993-August 1995, pp. 217 and 338, no. 58, pl. 137 (illustrated).
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Columbia Museum and Gibbs Planetarium; New York, The AXA Gallery; Macon, Tubman African-American Museum and Orlando, Terrace Gallery, Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South, The Ronald and June Shelp Collection, September 2000-February 2004, pp. 89 and 183 (illustrated).
New Orleans Museum of Art; University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley; San Diego Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art and Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Passionate Visions of the American South, Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, October 1993-August 1995, pp. 217 and 338, no. 58, pl. 137 (illustrated).
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Columbia Museum and Gibbs Planetarium; New York, The AXA Gallery; Macon, Tubman African-American Museum and Orlando, Terrace Gallery, Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South, The Ronald and June Shelp Collection, September 2000-February 2004, pp. 89 and 183 (illustrated).
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Kathryn Marber
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