Sentences with phrase «old bill traylor»

In 1939, Charles Shannon encountered the 85 - year - old Bill Traylor, seated in front of a blacksmith shop on Monroe Street in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Born into slavery in 1854, African American artist Bill Traylor saved up his memories until he was 85 years old, and then started producing «outsider art» during a 10 - year career that ended with his death in 1949.

Bill Traylor was broke and homeless at 85 years old.

Again, African - American artists are very much on the agenda: deceptively naive paintings by former slave Bill Traylor, who died in 1949, feature at Betty Cuningham ($ 50,000 - $ 140,000), while Donald Morris shows Bob Thompson, who was inspired by European Old Masters to produce boldly coloured figurative paintings (nine of 13 works sold on first day, $ 125,000 - $ 250,000).