Bill Traylor's, Construction w/Figures and Animals, 1943
Bill Traylor (April 1, 1854-October 23, 1949) was a self-taught artist born an Alabama slave. Unable to read or write, he first began drawing in 1939 at the age of eighty-three. He worked full-time for the next four years to produce over eighteen hundred drawings. He used a straight edge to create geometric silhouettes of human and animal figures which he then filled in with crayon and tempera. He is known for his intriguing use of pattern versus flat color and a remarkably intuitive sense of space. Image File history File links Outsider artist Bill Traylors Construction w/Figures and Animals 1943 Template:PD-art-life-50 Source http://www. ... Image File history File links Outsider artist Bill Traylors Construction w/Figures and Animals 1943 Template:PD-art-life-50 Source http://www. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Adolf Wölflis Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain, 1910 Outsider Art was a term coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (which literally translates as Raw Art or Rough Art), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
He started hanging his works on a nearby fence to entertain the locals. One of his first fans was Charles Shannon, a painter who introduced Traylor to the New South regionalist artists and organized two shows of his work before his death. Since then, Traylor has become one of the most highly sought-after outsider artists. Charles Haslewood Shannon (April 26, 1865 - 1937), English artist, was born at Sleaford in Lincolnshire, the son of the Rev. ... Adolf Wölflis Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain, 1910 The term Outsider Art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (which literally translates as Raw Art or Rough Art), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created...
Traylor is an unusual figure in comparison to other artists who make art over greater periods of their lifetimes.
Because Traylor had no permanent place to live, most of these paintings and drawings were gathered up and stored by another Montgomery artist, Charles Shannon, who befriended Traylor in the summer of 1939 and watched Traylor’s industrious output and progress day after day.
Traylor’s use of the silhouette as a means of reducing storytelling elements to a minimum of distractions can be related as narratives to terse stories told with a sense of humor held taught by rigorous editing and a modest format.
When BillTraylor was born in 1854 on the plantation of George Traylor near Benton, Alabama, the Emancipation Proclamation was still almost a decade away.
Traylor worked as a sharecropper for descendants of George Traylor for over eight decades, and during that period he raised some twenty children during his marriage.
Traylor's artistic activities were interrupted in 1942 when he moved north to live with some of his children during World War II.
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