Description Richly illustrated with full-page stunning reproductions, this is a unique and original approach to the work of Bill Traylor.
A sharecropper until around 1930, he moved to then-segregated Montgomery in his 80s and began to create art, layering references to religion, politics, and African American life in his.
Born into slavery around 1853/4 on a cotton plantation in Benton, Alabama, Traylor, who died in 1949, is one of the most celebrated self-taught American artists.
Description Richly illustrated with full-page stunning reproductions, this is a unique and original approach to the work of Bill Traylor