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BILL TRAYLOR (1854-1957): UNTITLED.

Currency:GBP Category:Collectibles Start Price:300.00 GBP Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP
BILL TRAYLOR (1854-1957): UNTITLED.
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At the age of 85, he took up a pencil and a scrap of cardboard to document his recollections and observations. From 1939 to 1942, while working on the sidewalks of Montgomery, Traylor produced nearly 1,500 pieces of art. While Traylor received his first public exhibition in 1940, it wasn’t until the late 1970s, thirty years after his death, that his work finally began to receive broader attention. Recent acceptance of Traylor as a significant figure of American folk and modern art has been founded on the efforts of Charles Shannon, as well as the evolving tastes of the art world. Shannon, who first encountered Traylor's work in 1940, brought Traylor to the attention of the larger art world. Since then, public and scholarly perception of Bill Traylor's life and work has been in constant evolution. First held up as an example of "primitive" or "outsider" art, Traylor now holds a central position in the fields of "self-taught" and modern art. This piece on cardboard is of a man sitting down striking a pose by Bill Traylor. Additionally signed. Size: 8.75x7.25 inches. Mounted and framed and supplied with coa.