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Bill Traylor : drawings from the collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts / essays by Margaret Lynne Ausfeld, Susan Mitchell Crawley, Leslie H. Paisley, Fred Barron, Jeffrey Wolf

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vernon_accession 12270
vernon_id 19393
vernon_slug bill-traylor-drawings-from-the-collections-of-the-high-museum-of-art-and-the-montgomery-museum-of-fine-arts-essays-by-margaret-lynne-ausfeld-susan-mitchell-crawley-leslie-h-paisley-fred-barron-jeffrey-wolf
vernon_authors Bill Traylor, Margaret Lynne Ausfeld, Susan Mitchell Crawley, Leslie H. Paisley, Fred Barron, Jeffrey Wolf
vernon_tags Art, Arts, Persons, Artists, Outsider art, Outsider artists, Folk art
vernon_production_date 2012
vernon_brief_description A monograph on the self-taught artist Bill Traylor's striking drawings, which reveal the witty vitality of his vision. During the final years of the Great Depression in Montgomery, Alabama, a retired field hand in his eighties named Bill Traylor begain drawing extraordinary images on pieces of discarded cardboard. The radically simplified forms of these lively drawings seem to echo the reductive tendencies of modernism. Nowhere is the ebullience of Traylor's work more apparent than in his multi-figure compositions, wherein negative space is fragmented by the angles of the outthrust legs and arms. This full-color catalog presents approximately sixty drawings by Traylor, along with three scholarly essays. This major publication of Traylor's work will appeal to readers who appreciate both modernism and folk art.
vernon_object_type Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication, Exhibition catalogues/Catalogues/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication
vernon_locations In Processing
vernon_ob_status Accessioned
vernon_isbn_issn 9783791351995
vernon_subject_people Bill Traylor (American, b.Circa 1853, d.1949)
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vernon_last_sync_timestamp 2026-04-21 11:10
vernon_cover_image_id 19098
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