Aleesa P. Alexander

is a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Twenty-five years ago, Thornton Dial (1928 – 2016) received his first solo exhibition at a New York City museum, Thornton Dial: Image of the Tiger. More precisely, he received two: the show dually debuted at the American Folk Art Museum and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Thornton Dial Sr. (1928–2016), Birds Got to Have Somewhere to Roost, Alabama, 2012, wood, carpet scraps, corrugated tin, burlap, nails, and enamel on wood, 61 1/4 x 48 x 10 in., American Folk Art Museum, New York, gift of the Thornton Dial Family, 2013.6.1. Photo by Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio.

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