Self-Taught Artist Thornton Dial

The Last Day of Martin Luther King, 1992
Dial uses the black-and-white-striped tiger here to represent King on the day of his assassination. But this time, the tiger is made of painted mop strings, a symbol of both the menial labor that African Americans were so often confined to and King's mission to "cleanse" the historical sin of racism. In the upper left corner, Christ comforts King's widow. Dial further connects King's death to Christ's by the painted frying pans in the lower left corner that imply a Last Supper.

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