Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor
2018Umberger, Leslie (Author); Kerry James Marshall (Introduction)
448 pages (color)
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1854 Benton, Alabama - 1947 Montgomery, Alabama. Known for: Folk art painting.
Born a slave on the plantation of George Traylor near Benton, Alabama, Bill Traylor became known as a folk artist who did stark and simple drawings with colored pencils in a flat, child-like style.... Read full biography
Born a slave on the plantation of George Traylor near Benton, Alabama, Bill Traylor became known as a folk artist who did stark and simple drawings with colored pencils in a flat, child-like style. His images are of plantation and street life, domestic animals and people going about their lives in... Read full biography
Born a slave on the plantation of George Traylor near Benton, Alabama, Bill Traylor became known as a folk artist who did stark and simple drawings with colored pencils in a flat, child-like style. His images are of plantation and street life, domestic animals and people going about their lives in the segregated South before and after the Civil War. After the Civil War, he took the name of the plantation owner and chose to remain on the plantation, living there until he was eighty-four years... Read full biography
Born a slave on the plantation of George Traylor near Benton, Alabama, Bill Traylor became known as a folk artist who did stark and simple drawings with colored pencils in a flat, child-like style. His images are of plantation and street life, domestic animals and people going about their lives in the segregated South before and after the Civil War. After the Civil War, he took the name of the plantation owner and chose to remain on the plantation, living there until he was eighty-four years old. It is likely he had no formal education. He worked as a field hand, and married Lourisa Duncan with whom he had nine children. (He fathered another eleven children while on the Plantation). As adults, they lived in Alabama, Washington DC and... Read full biography
Born a slave on the plantation of George Traylor near Benton, Alabama, Bill Traylor became known as a folk artist who did stark and simple drawings with colored pencils in a flat, child-like style. His images are of plantation and street life, domestic animals and people going about their lives in the segregated South before and after the Civil War. After the Civil War, he took the name of the plantation owner and chose to remain on the plantation, living there until he was eighty-four years old. It is likely he had no formal education. He worked as a field hand, and married Lourisa Duncan with whom he had nine children. (He fathered another eleven children while on the Plantation). As adults, they lived in Alabama, Washington DC and Detroit, Michigan. In 1939 at age 84, he decided to leave the plantation, saying "they'r... Read full biography
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Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art
2009Harris, Adam Duncan262 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesBill Traylor, William Edmondson, And the Modernist Impulse
2005Heifenstein, Josef; Roxanne Stanulis0 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesDeep Blues: Bill Traylor 1854-1949
1999Helfenstein, Josef; Kurzmeyer,0 pagesCollecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas
1998Taha, Halima270 pages (color)Contemporary American Folk Art A Collectors's Guide
1996Rosenak, Chuck and Jan320 pages (color)A World of Their Own: Twentieth Century American Folk Art (Newark Museum)
1995Jacobs, Joseph88 pages (color)The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art
1994
(Exhibition catalog)Kelley, Harmon; D. Hyland, G. Coker, et all68 pages (color)African American Art
1994
(Exhibition catalog)San Antonio Museum of Art67 pages (color)A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present
1993Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson542 pages (color)Common Ground/Uncommon Vision Michael & Julie Hall Collection American Folk Art
1993
(Exhibition catalog)Lippard, Lucy/J Hayes/K Ames335 pages (color)American Self-Taught: Paintings and Drawings by Outsider Artists
1993Maresca, Frank, Roger Ricco298 pages (color)Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art
1993Perry, Regina A203 pages (color)Bill Traylor His Life/His Art
1991Maresca, Frank/Roger Ricca192 pages (color)Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of 20th Century Folk Art and Artists
1990Rosenak, Chuck and Jan416 pages (color)Black Art/Ancestral Legacy
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Dallas Museum of Fine Art305 pages (color)African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection
1989McElroy, Guy C (others)125 pages (color)Art and Artists of the South Robert P Coggins Collection
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Chambers, Bruce W149 pages (color)American Folk Art of the Twentieth Century
1983Johnson, Jay; William Ketchum342 pages (color)Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980 (Corcoran Gallery of Art)
1982
(Exhibition catalog)Livingston, Jane/J Beardsley186 pages (color)Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
1973Cederholm, Theresa Dickason348 pages