Lady and the Long Neck Goose

Art

Gadsden Arts Center & Museum

Name/Title

Lady and the Long Neck Goose

Entry/Object ID

2019.1.20

Description

This watercolor illustrates a woman with dark hair holding a large goose. Both figures are painted with warm golden colors of yellows, orange, and red. As a reoccurring theme, many of Dial's portraits feature birds. He also made numerous portraits of nude women, saying that man would lose his "struggle" without women's strength and love.

Artwork Details

Medium

Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor Paint

Collection

Southern Vernacular Art Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2019.1

Source or Donor

Hill, Lou & Caynne

Acquisition Method

Donation

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Dial, Thornton Sr.

Role

Artist

Date made

1991

Dimensions

Height

29-1/2 in

Width

22 in

Interpretative Labels

Label

Thornton Dial, Sr. (1928-2016) Thornton Dial, Sr. is the most famous vernacular artist from the Southeast, whose work has shattered the art world's notion of "folk" and "outsider" art. Although Dial has never had any education or art training and is from a rural town in Alabama, his work touches on themes of racial inequality, struggles in a modern world, and relationships between men and women, themes that resonate with audiences around the world.

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Create Date

January 22, 2019