Full Sack
2004
76.0 x 55.0 cm
Souls Grown Deep
thornton dial, jr. (1952 –)
Thornton Dial Jr.: Bold assemblage artist tackling social & political issues through monumental works. Exploring race, history & nature – see his powerful art.
Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, United States of America)
Explore Souls Grown Deep: A Celebration of Black Art from the American South! Discover Gee's Bend quilts, assemblage art & inspiring stories by artists like Thornton Dial & Lonnie Holley.
As an adult, Thornton Dial recalled the corrupt sharecropping system in which landlords advanced his landless parents’ farming supplies, but later cheated them to perpetuate their exploitation: “They kept on farming and didn’t ever come out of debt. The Man advance people from one end of the year to the other end. Every year the Man always say, ‘you just about come out of debt this time but didn’t quite make it.”’
About this artwork
- Title: Full Sack
- Artist: thornton dial, jr.
- Year: 2004
- Original dimensions: 76.0 x 55.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Where to see it: Souls Grown Deep
- Color palette: Neutrals
- Color intensity: Monochromatic