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A major new look at the work of one of America’s foremost self-taught artists
Bill Traylor (ca. 1853–1949) came to art-making on his own and found his creative voice without guidance; today he is remembered as a renowned American artist. Traylor was born into slavery on an Alabama plantation, and his experiences spanned multiple worlds―black and white, rural and urban, old and new―as well as the crucibles that indelibly shaped America―the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Great Migration. Between Worlds presents an unparalleled look at the work of this enigmatic and dazzling artist, who blended common imagery with arcane symbolism, narration with abstraction, and personal vision with the beliefs and folkways of his time.
Traylor was about twelve when the Civil War ended. After six more decades of farm labor, he moved, aging and alone, into segregated Montgomery. In the last years of his life, he drew and painted works depicting plantation memories and the rising world of African American culture. Upon his death he left behind over a thousand pieces of art. Between Worlds convenes 205 of his most powerful creations, including a number that have been previously unpublished. This beautiful and carefully researched book assesses Traylor’s biography and stylistic development, and for the first time interprets his scenes as ongoing narratives, conveying enduring, interrelated themes.
Between Worlds reveals one man’s visual record of African American life as a window into the overarching story of his nation.
Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Leslie Umberger is curator of folk and self-taught art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Stephanie Stebich is the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Kerry James Marshall is an internationally renowned artist and 1997 MacArthur Fellow.
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Hardcover. Condition: VG/VG never read. . (illustrator). Black cloth boards, color-illustrated dust jacket with blue and black lettering. 444 pp. Illustrations, maps. Catalogue of an exhibition from September 28, 2018-March 17, 2019. Bill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) is regarded today as one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. A black man born into slavery in Alabama, he was an eyewitness to history - the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, the Great Migration, and the steady rise of African American urban culture in the South. Traylor would not live to see the civil rights movement, but he was among those who laid its foundation. Starting around 1939, Traylor - by then in his late eighties and living on the streets of Montgomery - took up pencil and paintbrush and attested to his existence and point of view. In keeping with this radical step, the paintings and drawings he made are visually striking and politically assertive; they include simple yet powerful distillations of tales and memories as well as spare, vibrantly colored abstractions. When Traylor died, he left behind more than one thousand works of art. Contents as follows: Lenders to the exhibition -- Director's foreword -- Preface -- Notes to the reader -- The beatitudes of Bill Traylor / Kerry James Marshall -- Prologue -- The life of Bill Traylor -- Nineteenth-century Alabama and the world of Bill Traylor's parents -- Bill Traylor's adult life and family, 1880-1949 -- The art of Bill Traylor -- Early work, ca. 1939-1940: plates 4-70 -- Florescence, ca. 1940-1942: plates 71-197 -- Art in the final years, 1942-1949 -- Afterlife: the posthumous success of Bill Traylor's art: plates 198-204 -- Timeline and family trees -- List of plates -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Image credits -- Index. Seller Inventory # 172544
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Umberger, Leslie. Between Worlds: The Art of BILL TRAYLOR. 448 pages, including 244 color and 61 b&w plates. 4to, cloth. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018. Bill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) came to art-making on his own and found his creative voice without guidance. Between Worlds presents an unparalleled look at the work of this enigmatic and dazzling artist, who blended common imagery with arcane symbolism, narration with abstraction, and personal vision with the beliefs and folkways of his time. Seller Inventory # 169419
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