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For the actor, see William Traylor. William Traylor (April 1, c. 1853 – October 23, 1949) was an African-American self-taught artist from Lowndes County, Alabama. [1] 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 ...
October 23, 1949, Montgomery, Alabama. Bill Traylor (born April 1, 1853?, Benton, Alabama, U.S.—died October 23, 1949, Montgomery, Alabama) was an African American self-taught artist who, over the course of three years starting at age 85, created some 1,200 drawings and paintings of people and animals. Scant information exists on Traylor’s ...
By 1910 he and his family (some fifteen children from those three relationships) had left Traylor land for good and were living on the outskirts of Montgomery, working as tenant farmers. His third wife, Laura, died in the mid-1920s, bringing Bill Traylor's farm- and family life to a close.
- April 1, 1853
Oct 10, 2018 · “I saw a Bill Traylor piece at the Whitney Museum a couple years ago. Ever since, I just went crazy about him,” says Edmar Neto, a 33-year-old folk art collector from Sâo Paulo, Brazil.
Bill Traylor. born near Pleasant Hill, AL ca. 1853-died Montgomery, AL 1949. Bill Traylor was born around April 1, 1853, on the Alabama plantation of John Getson Traylor in Dallas County, near the towns of Pleasant Hill and Benton. Traylor and his siblings were born enslaved, as their parents had been.
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- September 27, 2018
May 5, 2020 · Traylor returned to Montgomery in 1946, lived for a while with a daughter there, and then moved to a nursing home, where he died. The only known works by Traylor were undated but produced between 1939 and 1942 and are thus all dated as such. Anything that Traylor produced after 1942 was not preserved.
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Apr 7, 2019 · Bill Traylor had a story to tell, so he put it down on paper. He was born into slavery around 1853 in rural Alabama, ... He died in 1949 around the age of 96, leaving behind hundreds of works ...
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