Bill Traylor

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Bill Traylor working

	Untitled Black Male Boar with Curly Tail 15 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches c. 1939-43 Poster paint and pencil on found cardboard BT 183
	Untitled Male Dog with Red Tongue and Eye 16 x 16 inches c. 1940-43 Poster paint and pencil on found cardboard BT 184
	Untitled Black Spotted Male Dog 14 x 15 inches c. 1939-43 Pencil and poster paint on found cardboard BT 185k
	Untitled blue construction w. red bird Poster paint on found cardboard, 11.5 x 8 inches c. 1939-40
	Untitled Construction: Basket with Plant 1939/42 Pencil and Crayon on found cardboard 9 x 8 1/4 inches BT 157
	Untitled Horse (Signed) Pencil on cardboard 9/9/1939 19 15/16 x 14 inches framed: 28 3/4 x 22 1/4 inches BT 159 Price available upon request
	Turkey Pencil, tempera put on found cardboard 17 x 11 inches c. 1940 BT168
	Red Man Drinking with Figures 1939/42 Pencil and Crayon on found cardboard 10 x 7 inches D8 BT 171
	Basket construction with Cat September 9, 1939 Pencil and Crayon on found cardboard 9 x 8.25 inches BT 172
	Untitled house and bird construction 1939-42 Pencil, colored pencil and crayon on found cardboard 22 x 14inches BT175

BIOGRAPHY
1854	Born on George Hartwell Traylor’s plantation in Benton, Alabama, where he stayed on through emancipation until the mid-1930s.
c. 1935	Came to Montgomery where he worked briefly at a shoe factory, and then later collected a state pension.
1939	Took up a post on a Lawrence Street sidewalk where he began to draw on scraps of cardboard. He then met Charles Shannon, a young painter, who offered him drawing materials and financial support.
1940	First exhibition of Traylor’s drawings at New South in Montgomery, organized by Charles Shannon.
1941	First exhibition of Traylor’s work in New York City at the Fieldston School.
1942	Traylor traveled north to live with his children until 1946. Leg amputated due to gangrene.
1946	“He Lost 10,000 Years”, a story on Traylor by Allen Rankin, is published in Collier’s.
1949	Traylor dies at a nursing home in Montgomery.

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