Fishing for Love

© 2021 Estate of Thornton Dial / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York / photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio

Fishing for Love

Currently not on view

Princeton Collects

Fishing for Love,

1991

Thornton Dial, 1928–2016; born Emelle, AL; died McCalla, AL
2021-54

Information

Title
Fishing for Love
Dates

1991

Maker
Thornton Dial
Medium
Watercolor and graphite
Dimensions
79 × 58.5 cm (31 1/8 × 23 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Object Number
2021-54
Signatures
Signed in graphite, lower right: TD
Culture
American
Type
watercolors, drawings
Materials
graphite, watercolor
Subject
fish, women, faces

the artist, McCalla, Ala. (until 1991; in 1991 purchased by William S. Arnett); William S. Arnett, Atlanta (1991-2011; in 2011 his gift to Souls Grown Deep Foundation); Souls Grown Deep Foundation, Atlanta

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