Bill Traylor

	Untitled Horse Signed by artist c. 1939 20 x 14 inches BT 159
	Untitled Spotted Cat Pencil and poster paint on cardboard 12 7/8 x 11 inches BT 176 Exhibited: Black Folk Art In America, 1930 - 1980, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. January 15 - March 28, 1982. Illustrated in exhibition catalog: p. 145.
	Untitled Man Pointing Pencil and poster paint on found cardboard 15 x 13 inches BT 179
	Peg – Legged Man c. 1939-42 11.5 x 8 inches Pencil, poster paint on found cardboard BT 182 Illustrated: Bill Traylor: High-singing Blue catalog from Hirschl and Adler Gallery, NYC, and Carl Hammer Gallery , Chicago, exhibitions, 1997
	Untitled, Black Male dog with red eye and tongue Pencil and poster paint on found cardboard 16 x 16.5 inches BT 184
	Untitled Black and White Dog Pencil and poster paint on found cardboard 14 x 15 inches BT 185
	Untitled Construction- Exciting Event c. 1939-42 11.75 x 7 inches Pencil, poster paint on found cardboard BT 186
	Untitled, Man Pointing Pencil and poster paint on found cardboard 17 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches BT 188
	Untitled, Red Eyed Dog Pencil and poster paint on found cardboard 11 1/8 x 13 1/4 inches BT 189
	Three Figure Construction in Black c. 1939-42 14 x 14.5 inches Pencil, poster paint on found cardboard BT 190

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.