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The Comfort and Service My Daddy Brings to Our Household

Richard Dial
  • RD - The Comfort and Service My Daddy Brings to Our Household - Master Image

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    Photo: Ron Lee/The Silver Factory, 1988
1988
Welded steel, plastic tubing, wheels, paint
70.75 x 25 x 65 inches
Collection of
High Museum of Art
Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

In The Comfort and Service My Daddy Brings to Our Household, Richard Dial personalizes a countering African American position in which the father, depicted as first a conflation of household throne and shotgun house, and second as a servant ready to support the burdens of his family, assumes the dual roles of master and servant performed by Thornton Dial through the years.