Bill Traylor Drawings. Why We Should Remember the Slave and Sharecropper As Much As The Artist Huffington Post. View Bill Traylors 153 artworks on artnet.
Born into slavery near Benton Alabama Bill Traylor worked and lived on the same plantation for eighty-four years. He hung his drawings on the fence behind. Bill Traylor was born into slavery on a Benton Alabama cotton plantation in 1853 but he died 96 years later as an artist then forgotten by history not far away in Montgomery in 1949.
Why We Should Remember the Slave and Sharecropper As Much As The Artist Huffington Post.
Bill Traylor was an American painter and one of the most celebrated Outsider artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Why We Should Remember the Slave and Sharecropper As Much As The Artist Huffington Post. Originally titled Man on White Woman on Red the work shocked. His parents Sally and Bill Calloway were slaves on the plantation of George Hartwell Traylor a white cotton grower.
