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Bill Traylor Biography
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Travelled North to live with his children
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Leg amputated due to gangrene
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Born, At George Hartwell Traylor's plantation Benton, AL
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Came to Montgomery, worked in Shoe Factory Montgomery, AL
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Drew scraps on cardboard Took a post on Lawrence St. sidewalk
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1997
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High Singing Blue, Hirschl & Adler Modern New York, NY
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1997
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High Singing Blue, Carl Hammer Gallery Chicago, IL
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1996
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Self-Taught: The Last 100 Years, Guston, Basquait, John McEnroe Gallery New York, NY
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1994 - 1995
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Passionate Visions of the South: Self Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, , San Diego Museum of Art San Diego, CA
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1994 - 1995
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Passionate Visions of the South: Self Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans, LA
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1994 - 1995
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Passionate Visions of the South: Self Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, University Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
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1994 - 1995
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Passionate Visions of the South: Self Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, University of California Berkely, CA
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1994 - 1995
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Passionate Visions of the South: Self Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, DC
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1994 - 1995
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Passionate Visions of the South: Self Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, North Carolina Museum of Art Raleigh, NC
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1994 - 1995
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Lively Times & Exciting Events: The Drawings of Bill Traylor, El Paso Museum of Art El Paso,TX
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1994 - 1995
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Lively Times & Exciting Events: The Drawings of Bill Traylor, The Cummer Gallery of Art Jacksonville, FL
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1994 - 1995
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Lively Times & Exciting Events: The Drawings of Bill Traylor, Madison-Morgan Cultural Center Madison, GA
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1994 - 1995
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Lively Times & Exciting Events: The Drawings of Bill Traylor, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Montgomery, AL
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1994 - 1995
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Pictures from the Bill Traylor Family Trust and Others, Hirschl & Adler Modern New York, NY
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1995
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A World of Their Own, Twentieth-Century American Folk Art, The Newark Museum Newark, NJ
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1995
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Dust Tracks on a Road, Four Southern Artist, High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA
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1994
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Bill Traylor, Davis & Langdale Company, Inc. New York
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1993
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Bill Traylor, Freedman Gallery,Albright College Reading, PA
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1992
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Bill Traylor, Hirschl & Adler Modern New York, NY
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1992
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Traylor/Shannon, Charles Shannon, Carl Hammer Gallery Chicago, IL
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1991
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Bill Traylor, Ricco/Maresca New York, NY
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1941
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, , Fieldston School New York, NY
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1940
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(1st Exhibition of Traylor's drawing), New South Art Center Montgomery, AL
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| Links to further information |
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