American Folk Art Museum
2 Lincoln Square
Mailing: 1414 Avenue of The Americas
New York City, NY 10023
Mailing: 1414 Avenue of The Americas
New York City, NY 10023
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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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Museums & Collections (11)
All MuseumsGreenville County Museum of Art
420 College Street
Greenville, SC 29601High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309Hunter Museum of American Art
10 Bluff View
Chattanooga, TN 37403Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Milwaukee Art Museum
700 North Art Museum Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53202-3707National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004New Jersey State Museum
205 West State Street
Trenton, NJ 08625-0530Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives
Po Box 7646
Philadelphia, PA 19101The Johnson Collection
100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203
Spartanburg, SC 29306Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014