Posing Movie Star Holding on for Freedom, 1991

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Medium

graphite and watercolor on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 76.2 × 57.15 cm (30 × 22 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation

Accession Number

2020.28.35

Artists / Makers

Thornton Dial (artist) American, 1928 - 2016

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Inscription

lower left: T D
verso: 1991

Provenance

The artist, McCalla, Alabama; 1990 William S. Arnett, Atlanta, Georgia; 2005 gift to Tinwood Alliance, Atlanta, Georgia; 2020 transfer to the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia; 2020 purchased by NGA.

Associated Names

Souls Grown Deep Foundation

Exhibition History

2022: Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022-2023.

Bibliography

2000: Arnett, Paul, and William Arnett. Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South. 2 vols. Atlanta, 2000-2001: vol. 2, p. 205, pl. 135, repro.