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Thornton Dial was born in to a teenage mother, Mattie Bell, on a former cotton plantation in Emelle, Alabama, where relatives in his extended family worked as sharecroppers.
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Born in a cornfield to an unwed teenage mother, Dial grew up in rural Emelle, in Alabama's western flatlands.
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Thornton Dial was a pioneering African-American artist who rose to the pinnacle of contemporary art history over a thirty-year trajectory that began as he approached 60 years of age.
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Having lived his entire life in the rural American South as a black working-class man, his art reveals a unique perspective on America’s most difficult and pervasive challenges, including .