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Materials:

black pencil on repurposed card

Size Notes:

9 x 8.25 in.

Description:

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Exhibited:

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition, African-American Artists 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection, 1989 - 1992. New York, American Folk Art Museum, Traylor in Motion: Wonders from New York Collections, 11 June - 22 September 2013. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, 28 September 2018 - 7 April 2019.

Literature:

Guy C. McElroy, African-American Artists 1880-1987: Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection (University of Washington Press, 1989). Ricco Maresca Gallery, Bill Traylor: Observing Life (Ricco Maresca, 1997), no. 59. Leslie Umberger, Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor (Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with Princeton University Press, 2018), p. 195.

Provenance:

Charles Shannon, Montgomery, Alabama Evans-Tibbs Collection, Washington, D.C. Luise Ross Gallery, New York William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York, 1993 (acquired from the above) The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, Mount Kisco, New York, 2013 (gifted from the above)