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Bill Traylor

Bill Traylor (1854 - 1947) was active/lived in Alabama.  Bill Traylor is known for Folk art painting.

Copyright by Owner

Born a slave on the plantation of George Traylor near Benton, Alabama, Bill Traylor became known as a folk artist who did stark and simple drawings with colored pencils in a flat, child-like style.  His images are of plantation and street life, domestic animals and people going about their lives in the segregated South before and after the Civil War.

After the Civil War, he took the name of the plantation owner and chose to remain on the plantation, living there until he was eighty-four years old.  It is likely he had no formal education.  He worked as a field hand, and married Lourisa Duncan with whom he had nine children.  (He fathered another eleven children while on the Plantation).  As adults, they lived in Alabama, Washington DC and Detroit, Michigan.

In 1939 at age 84, he decided to leave the plantation, saying "they're all gone", meaning the grown children had moved away from the area and his wife had died. He mov   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10716 characters.]  Artist bio

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