Tennessee. 1874 - 1951
Folk art sculpture, stone carving
Page loaded successfully. Showing similar artists for Bill Traylor.
Bill Traylor SIMILAR ARTISTS
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
Page shows 3 sample artworks and 32 artists similar to Bill Traylor. Sample images show some of Bill Traylor's highest-priced auction results. Similar artists are ranked by similarity to Bill Traylor's work and style.
Sample Images for Bill Traylor
Carousel showing 3 sample artworks by Bill Traylor. Use arrow keys to navigate, or click the indicator dots.
Carousel auto-advances every 5 seconds. Use arrow keys to manually navigate and stop auto-rotation.
Slide 1 of 3: Man on White, Woman on Red / Man with Black Dog, double sided, 1939-1942
Man on White, Woman on Red / Man with Black Dog, double sided, 1939-1942
Bill TraylorMan on White, Woman on Red / Man with Black Dog, double sided, 1939-1942
Bill Traylor
Woman Pointing at Man with Cane, 1939-1942
Bill Traylor
MAN WITH A PLOW
Bill TraylorArtists Similar to Bill Traylor (32)
Collection of similar artists. Use arrow keys to navigate between artists, Enter or Space to select an artist, Home to go to first artist, End to go to last artist. Collection contains 32 artists.
Summary.jpg)
South Carolina. 1906 - 1985
Naive style figure, portrait and genre regionalist painting
Illinois, Arizona. 1886 - 1972
Naive dream-landscape, outsider art
Kentucky. 1895 - 1990
Folk art painting and found object sculpture
Texas. 1898 - 1993
Cray-pas naive genre, figure and floral painting
New Mexico. 1910 - 1991
Sculptor, folk art, naive sketches
Ohio, Mississippi. 1892 - 1984
Folk art carvings, narrative, teacher, collaborative art
Georgia. 1900 - 1982
Collage, assemblages and colored pencil images of dreams, animals, landscape
Alabama. 1910 - 2007
Outsider-animal, architecture, figure
Idaho. 1899 - 1977
Found object collage, outsider art
Florida. 1887 - 1979
Naive wood carving
Alabama. 1928 - 2016
Outsider art, rural genre and landscape painting, sculpture
North Carolina. 1931 - 1999
Naive high colored yard-art sculpture
New Mexico. Born 1949
Sculptor-wooden animal
Kentucky. 1919 - 2020
Folk art memory and rural genre paintings, wood carving
Alabama. 1920 - 2006
Naive figure, self portrait, animals-Outsider art
Georgia, Alabama. 1916 - 2001
Naive religious-words, folk art constructions
Idaho. Born 1946
Quirky assemblages, finger painting, unique T-shirt designs
Louisiana. 1900 - 1980
Folk genre and religious theme painting, calligraphy, teaching
Georgia. 1908 - 1997
Pointillist folk art image painting, landscape, farmlife, animals, figures and portraits
California / Mexico. 1895 - 1963
Outsider art, naive figure and animal paintings, drawings, collage
South Carolina, New York. 1911 - 1990
Naive figure-genre-outsider art
North Carolina. 1892 - 1987
Abstract, naive crayon drawing, religious and mystical
Louisiana. 1898 - 1997
Folk art sculpture, painting, yard art
West Virginia. 1901 - 1995
Naive sculpture, drawing
Louisiana / Morocco. 1945 - 2007
Folk art, wood carved totems, ceremonial canes, voodoos
California. 1898 - 1993
Naive genre-figure-animal painting
Mississippi, Tennessee. 1900 - 1996
Naive genre painting
Mississippi. 1904 - 1994
Naive figure, assemblage sculpture
Florida. 1943 - 2010
Mod naive urban views, installation
California. Born 1924
Naive obsessive male portraits, fantasy faces, animals, people
Vermont. 1934 - 2005
Outsider art, naive painting