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BILL TRAYLOR (C. 1853-1949)
Man With Hat and Cane
inscribed 'Bill Traylor. Born at Benton ala Lowndes Ky/April 1.1855 Raised under/Mr George Traylor' (lower edge)
colored pencil and graphite on card
1714 x 978 in. (43.8 x 25.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1939.
Provenance
Charles and Eugenia Shannon, Montgomery, Alabama.
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York.
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York, acquired from the above, 1991.
The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, Mount Kisco, New York, gift from the above, 2016.
Literature
L. Umberger, et al., Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, exh.cat., Washington DC, 2018, pp. 49, 135, pl. 1, fig. 52, illustrated.
V. Rousseau and D. Purden, Bill Traylor, Milan, 2018, p. 77, illustrated.
Exhibited
New South, Montgomery, Alabama, New South Gallery, Bill Traylor: People's Artist, February 1940.
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Krannert Art Museum; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art; New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem; Houston, The Menil Collection, Bill Traylor, William Edmondson, and the Modernist Impulse, October 22, 2004-October 2, 2005, cat. 67.
New York, David Zwirner, Bill Traylor: Works from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, February 22-April 13, 2024.
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