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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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- Buying Buzz-Sel-Taught Art SoarsApril 2004Editor, Art & AntiquesArt & Antiques
- The New VisionariesDecember 2003Pollack, BarbaraARTnews
- The Rise of African American ArtSeptember 2003Kinsella, EileenARTnews
- MarketfileJune 2003Editors, Art & AuctionArt & Auction
- MarketplaceFebruary 2000EditorsArt & Auction
- Date BookJanuary 2000EditorsArt & Auction
- ReviewsMay 1998Editors, ARTnewsARTnews
- Outside, Inside or SomewhereMay 1996Tully, JuddARTnews