Outsider Artist Thornton Dial Dead at 87
Photo: Matthew Arnett. Sarah Cascone, Tuesday, January 26, 2016 Thornton Dial, a prominent outsider artist from Emelle, Alabama, is dead at 87, the Associated Press reports. Dial had previously suffered from numerous strokes, but the cause of death has not yet been identified. Born to African American sharecroppers in 1928, Dial was self-taught as an artist, creating paintings and sculptures from …