Man With Bird

Thornton Dial

1988

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Small porcelain sculpture, glazed white, in the form of a piece of bread with a small fish lying on top and a thin piece of white porcelain curling up that resembles a piece of lettuce, the fish is highlighted in light blue glaze in dots on his belly, on his fins and eyes.
A black woman sits in a chair on a front porch with a dog.
Lucifer sitting on throne with dogs, attendant(s), and crows.
Flag is based on the traditional chromolithograph image of Erzulie Danthor (also spelled Dantor, Danto), taken from the dark-skinned Polish Virgin of Czestochowa. Mother and child are surrounded by floating flower-shaped stars.