EP009 - Bill Traylor
Outsider Art Podcast
English - December 19, 2020 22:24 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsVisual Arts Arts Society & Culture outsider art art art history self taught art visionary art art brut vernacular art neuve invention autodidact art raw art Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Born into slavery in the American South in 1853, emancipated in 1865 and living into his 90's Bill Traylor's life spanned a tumultuous time in US history. He had lived for over 8 decades before he began creating the art for which he has become known and his extant works come from a period between 1939 and 1942. Bill Traylor is an American Master who packed a lifetime of experiences into his short career as an artist creating a potent and still relevant body of work that resonates just as powerfully as ever.
Bill Traylor on Artsy (Between Worlds show) - https://www.artsy.net/show/smithsonian-american-art-museum-between-worlds-the-art-of-bill-traylor
Cover Image - Bill Traylor. Untitled (Yellow Chicken). circa 1939-40
Reading List
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor. Leslie Umberger. ISBN - 978-0691182674
Bill Traylor - Deep Blues. Edited by Josef Helfenstein and Roman Kurzmeyer. ISBN - 0 300 081960
Bill Traylor William Edmondson and the Modernist Impulse. Edited by Josef Helfenstein and Roxanne Stanulis. ISBN - 1-883-01535-9
Bill Traylor, Conjure and Intentionality. Randall Morris. Raw Vision Magazine #100
The World of Bill Traylor. Leslie Umberger. Antiques Magazine - July/August 2018
America is a snarling dog. Jerry Saltz. New York Magazine - November 25-December 8 2019
Video Links
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor. Smithsonian symposium youtube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0uD1XJCILk
Documentary
Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts - http://www.billtraylorchasingghosts.com/
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