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BILL TRAYLOR (C. 1853-1949)
Blue Bird
Charles Shannon stickers 'S/H 46 BLUE TURKEY' and 'A108 TURKEYS' (on the reverse)
tempera and graphite on repurposed Baby Ruth cardboard packaging
73⁄8 x 131⁄2 in. (18.7 x 34.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1939-1942.
Provenance
Charles and Eugenia Shannon, Montgomery, Alabama
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, 1992
Gift of the above to the present owner, 2013
Literature
S. Gold, "‘Outsider Art’ Under One Roof at Katonah Museum of Art," The New York Times, 13 August 2015, digital (illustrated in situ).
Exhibited
Katonah Museum of Art; University of North Carolina Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art Museum and Artis-Naples Baker Museum, Inside the Outside: Five Self-Taught Artists from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, July 2015-September 2017.
New York, David Zwirner, Bill Traylor: Works from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, February-April 2024.
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