Souls Grown Deep

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Thornton Dial: High and Wide (Carrying the Rats to the Man)

In this piece, Thornton Dial recalls one of the most horrifying specters in American history and consciousness—the African slave ship.

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Thornton Dial: Strange Fruit

Throughout his prolific career, Thornton Dial engaged with the spectacle of racial violence in America, frequently drawing on his own experience growing up in the Jim Crow South.

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Nellie Mae Rowe: Picking Cotton

The richly iconographic drawings of Nellie Mae Rowe are suffused with disguised narratives and hidden meanings.

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We All End Up in the Clay: The Sculpture of James 'Son Ford' Thomas