Thornton Dial, Sr.
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© Estate of Thornton Dial / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Museum
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Museum
Date1998
PlaceUnited States
MediumPaper, found textiles, found objects, Plexiglas, and paint over metal and wood armature
Dimensions77 1/2 × 71 × 36 in. (196.9 × 180.3 × 91.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2003.695
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artist; William S. Arnett [1939-2020], Atlanta; Tinwood Alliance, Atlanta; purchased by the MFAH, 2003.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "African-American Art in the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 22, 2004 - May 9, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
There do not appear to be any further inscriptions.
The sculpture is initialed in pencil, on the proper right side of the sculpture: "TD"

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