African Athlete – (Thornton Dial, Jr.) ◄ Edellinen seuraava ►

Artist: Thornton Dial, Jr.

Treffi: 1998

koko: 111 x 76 cm

museo: Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, United States)

Tekniikka: Drawing

From the beginning, the most prevalent subjects of Dial’s drawings have been women. His earliest works on paper are sinuous female figures in communion with emblems of nature—birds, egg-filled nests, tigers and fish. Beginning in the 1990s, he also began to create portraits of real-word women, from the athlete Florence Griffith Joyner (