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Materials:

black pencil and graphite on repurposed card

Size Notes:

12.50 x 15.25 in.

Description:

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Exhibited:

New York, American Folk Art Museum, Self Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology, 10 March - 17 May, 1988. Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Krannert Art Museum; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art; New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem; and Houston, The Menil Collection, Bill Traylor, William Edmondson, and the Modernist Impulse, 22 October 2004 - 2 January 2005 (Urbana-Champaign), 1 February - 3 April 2005 (Birmingham), 20 April - 26 June 2005 (New York), 22 July - 2 October 2005 (Houston). 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:

Ricco Maresca Gallery, Bill Traylor: Observing Life (Ricco Maresca, 1997), no. 11. Josef Helfenstein and Roxanne Stanulis, eds., Bill Traylor, William Edmondson, and the Modernist Impulse (Krannert Art Museum and the Menil Collection in association with the University of Washington Press, 2004), no. 15. Leslie Umberger, Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor (Princeton, New Jersey, 2018), p. 177.

Provenance:

Hirschl and Adler Gallery, New York Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York, 1994 (acquired from the above) The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, Mount Kisco, New York, 2013 (gifted from the above)