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BILL TRAYLOR (1854-1949).

Currency:GBP Category:Memorabilia Start Price:NA Estimated At:800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP
BILL TRAYLOR (1854-1949).
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William "Bill" Traylor was an African-American self-taught artist from Lowndes County, Alabama. Born into slavery, Traylor spent the majority of his life after emancipation as a sharecropper. It was only after 1939, following his move to Montgomery, Alabama that Traylor began to draw. Born into slavery circa 1853, Bill Traylor was witness to the Civil War and Emancipation, lived through Reconstruction, the Jim Crow segregation and the Great Migration. After seven decades of toil, too old and infirm to work any longer, he decided to pick up a pencil and paintbrush. He was thought to be 86 at the time. Sitting at a small desk on a busy street in Montgomery, Alabama, he turned out more than a thousand images in the next four years. The striking works on discarded cardboard also had a visual immediacy and enough flair to attract the eye of professional artists in town who encouraged and collected the work.
The widest exposure to his work came decades after his death. The drawing by and signed by Bill Traylor measures 9 x 6.75 inches. Its mounted and framed and supplied with coa.