African Athlete – (Thornton Dial, Jr.) ◄ Tidligere neste ►

Artist: Thornton Dial, Jr.

Dato: 1998

Størrelse: 111 x 76 cm

Museum: Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, United States)

Teknikk: 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 (