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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.
Bill Traylor was born, enslaved, around 1853 in rural Alabama. After Emancipation, his family remained tied to farmwork and the family that had enslaved them for many additional years. Traylor’s life was indelibly marked by the racism, brutality, and oppression of segregated Alabama.
William Traylor (April 1, c. 1853 – October 23, 1949) 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.
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor situates Traylor as the only known artist enslaved at birth to make a significant body of drawn and painted work. His compelling imagery charts the crossroads of radically different worlds—rural and urban, black and white, old and new—and reveals how one man’s visual record of African American life ...
Nacimiento: 1 de abril de 1854; Benton, Lowndes County, Alabama, United States. Fallecimiento: 23 de octubre de 1949; United States. Nacionalidad: American. Movimiento: Arte Marginal (Art Brut) Campo: dibujo. Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Traylor.
Born enslaved in Alabama, Bill Traylor was an eyewitness to history: the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, the Great Migration, and the steady rise of African...
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.
