Object Details
- Artist
- Bill Traylor, born near Pleasant Hill, AL ca. 1853-died Montgomery, AL 1949
- Exhibition Label
- Bill Traylor began drawing his memories sometime around 1939, when he was about eighty-six. After decades of farm labor, the aged artist spent his days in the city, observing and drawing in the Black business district of Montgomery. He took stock of the world around him, first in pencil, later in water-based paint, learning to organize his pictures as visual texts—telling stories and keeping a record of all he had experienced.
- (We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection, 2022)
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Margaret Z. Robson Collection, Gift of John E. and Douglas O. Robson
- Copyright
- © 1994, Bill Traylor Family Trust
- December 1939
- Object number
- 2016.38.90
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Drawing
- Folk Art
- Medium
- opaque watercolor and pencil on paperboard
- Dimensions
- sheet and image: 15 × 14 in. (38.1 × 35.6 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Animal\mule
- Record ID
- saam_2016.38.90
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7b3ddfb02-fd58-45ee-8be9-5892d16fe8cd
