Traylor's works (above: Man with Yoke, detail) are drawing fans worldwide for their exuberant modern composition and design. SAAM, photo: Gene Young. Born into slavery circa 1853, Bill Traylor was ...

Traylor’s work is often ambiguous: In 1939’s Untitled (Yellow and Blue House with Figures and Dog), the top character may be a servant—or Death itself. Photo by Gene Young Blacksmith Shop, c ...

The folk art of Bill Traylor 04:44. Bill Traylor had a story to tell, so he put it down on paper. He was born into slavery around 1853 in rural Alabama, and after the Civil War and Emancipation he ...

When the Smithsonian American Art Museum opened its major retrospective of Traylor’s work in September of 2018, it would have been natural to assume all the roadblocks to enjoying his work had ...

Bill Traylor: From slave to Montgomery artist, a life's work on exhibit in D.C. Smithsonian American Art Museum is preparing for the largest exhibit ever of Traylor's artwork, which opens Sept. 28 ...

Traylor was recently given a major retrospective — “Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor” — at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which closed in April. “He’s not an important ...

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In Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, author Leslie Umberger pieces together what is undoubtedly the most comprehensive record of Bill Traylor’s life to date. Traylor (circa 1853-1949) was ...

The art of Bill Traylor comes to us with the ghosts of slave ships, lynchings, chain gangs, Jim Crow, justice denied — an American night-story without end. Born in Alabama in 1853, Traylor was 9 ...

The late African-American artist Bill Traylor is known today thanks to several instances of luck and persistence, which were undoubtedly helped along by the sheer strength of his art. Staggering ...