Bill Traylor

>Bill Traylor 2005-01-29T02:53:50Z Philthecow move image [[Image:Bill_Traylor_outsider_art_1943.JPG|right|thumb|Bill Traylor's, ''Construction w/Figures and Animals'', 1943]] '''Bill Traylor''' ([[1856]]-[[1947]]) was a [[self-taught art|self-taught artist]] born an Alabama slave. Unable to read or write, he first began drawing in [[1939]] at the age of eighty-three. He worked full-time for the next four years to produce over eighteen hundred drawings. He used a straight edge to create geometric silhouettes of human and animal figures which he then filled in with crayon and tempera. He is known for his intriguing use of pattern versus flat color and a remarkably intuitive sense of space. He started hanging his works on a nearby fence to entertain the locals. One of his first fans was [[Charles Shannon]], a painter who introduced Traylor to the New South regionalist artists and organized two shows of his work before his death. Since then, Traylor has become one of the most highly sought-after [[outsider art|outsider artists]]. ==External links== *[http://www.hammergallery.com/Artists/traylor.htm Artist's works and biography] *[http://www.rawvision.com/back/traylor/traylor.html Information page on Bill Traylor] [[Category: Outsider artists|Traylor, Bill]]