Blue Man with Hat atop Construction, 1939- 1942 |
Red Man, c. 1939-41 |
Man with Yoke |
William "Bill" Traylor (1854–1949) was an African-American self-taught artist. Traylor spent the majority of his life working as a slave. From 1939 to 1942, while working on the sidewalks of Montgomery, he produced nearly 1,500 pieces of art.
Scans from the book 'Groundwaters, a century of art by self-taught and outsider artists', Charles Russell, 2011.