Home Sweet Home
Artist: Thornton Dial Jr. (American, born 1953)
Date: 1990
Dimensions:
48 × 72 in. (121.9 × 182.9 cm)
Medium: Enamel on wood
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Arthur J. Secor, by exchange, purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Object number: 2020.29
Label Text:Thornton Dial, Jr. composes assemblages, furniture, and sculpture that explore consistent themes of nature, the working man, and African American experiences. He is also a painter. He composed the autobiographical Home Sweet Home the week he left his job at the Pullman Standard Company in Bessemer, Alabama, which built railway cars.
Dial, Jr. often employs humor and satire to explore pertinent themes, and this work has a certain lightness. He paints himself as a smiling frog, walking into a vividly hued swamp. The frog gleefully appears to be returning home, as Dial Jr. did to dedicate more time to his art and his community.
Dial, Jr. often employs humor and satire to explore pertinent themes, and this work has a certain lightness. He paints himself as a smiling frog, walking into a vividly hued swamp. The frog gleefully appears to be returning home, as Dial Jr. did to dedicate more time to his art and his community.
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