ARTHUR DIAL
(b. 1930) Bessemer, AL
Brother of iconic artist Thornton “Buck” Dial, Arthur Dial’s work is featured in the publications “History Refused to Die: The Enduring Legacy of the African-American Art of Alabama”(Tinwood, 2015), and “Souls Grown Deep: African-American Vernacular Art, Volume 1”(Tinwood, 2000).
Eve and Adam
1990
40” x 40”
Mixed media on plywood
“Eve and Adam, they were born out there in the Garden. They weren't supposed to bite off that apple but they did it. They sinned before God. The snake made them ashamed of their nakedness. Everybody sins. We are all born in sin.”—source: Souls Grown Deep Foundation; from interview by William Arnett, 1997.