Bill Traylor

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Bill Traylor working

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	Bill Traylor Figure, Animal, Plant Construction Crayon on cardboard c. 1939-43 10 x 8 inches BT 125 sold
	Bill Traylor Construction w/Figures and Animals tempera, pencil on cardboard c. 1939-43 12 1/2 x 8 inches BT 126 sold
	Bill Traylor Man with Blue Pants and Umbrella Tempera on cardboard c. 1939-43 15 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches BT 134 sold
	(Double-sided) Pencil and tempora on cardboard on verso is a pencil drawing of a man on construction c. 1939 - 1940 13.25 x 7 inches. framed: 20.25 x 16.25 inches BT 158 sold
	Untitled Exciting Event Verso
	Untitled Horse (Signed) Pencil on cardboard 9/9/1939 19 15/16 x 14 inches framed: 28 3/4 x 22 1/4 inches BT 159 Price available upon request

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.

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