It Jes' Happened : : When Bill Traylor Started to Draw

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Call Number: J 921 Traylor, Bill, Kids Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Artists & Writers / Traylor, Bill
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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"A biography of twentieth-century African American folk artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban life in Alabama. Includes an afterword, author's note, and sources"--Provided by publisher.

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Bill Traylor submitted by ccrose on July 28, 2019, 9:08pm An artist that is self taught is labeled an “outsider artist.” They don’t know any of the so-called rules. I got to see this gentleman's drawings last year at the National Museum of Art in Washington DC. They were all drawn on cardboard. The animals and people were so individual, with gestures that only that person would do. Like a woman with her hand on her hip, cocked out, and her other hand pointing with a crook in the wrist. This was one sassy woman. They are not drawn to be carefully detailed, realistic, but the overall postures, some tiny on the cardboard and some so large and out of proportion. They all spoke of an artist who watched the people in his town, knew their tomfoolery. He used only pencil and black ink. He wasn’t hellbent on fame but he just had to keep on drawing. So glad his work is acknowledged as eloquent even without schooling.