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Thornton Dial Jr.

Tornadoes Don’t Discriminate with Nobody

1989

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Thornton Dial Jr.

Tornadoes Don’t Discriminate with Nobody

Thornton Dial Jr.

Tornadoes Don’t Discriminate with Nobody

1989

Physical Qualities Enamel paint on corugated tin and wood, 48 × 72 × 4 in. (121.9 × 182.9 × 10.2 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation; and purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Object Number 2021.16

Artist

Thornton Dial Jr.

1952–2000

born Bessemer, AL 1953
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