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Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Hardcover – January 19, 2012

by Susan Crawley (Contributor), Leslie Paisley (Contributor), Margaret Lynne Ausfeld (Contributor),
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A monograph on the self-taught artist Bill Traylor's striking drawings, which reveal the witty vitality of his vision. During the final years of the Great Depression in Montgomery, Alabama, a retired field hand in his eighties named Bill Traylor begain drawing extraordinary images on pieces of discarded cardboard. The radically simplified forms of these lively drawings seem to echo the reductive tendencies of modernism. Nowhere is the ebullience of Traylor's work more apparent than in his multi-figure compositions, wherein negative space is fragmented by the angles of the outthrust legs and arms. This full-color catalog presents approximately sixty drawings by Traylor, along with three scholarly essays. This major publication of Traylor's work will appeal to readers who appreciate both modernism and folk art.
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    104 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Prestel
  4. Publication date
    January 19, 2012
  5. Dimensions
    9.5 x 0.75 x 11.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    3791351990
  7. ISBN-13
    978-3791351995
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A monograph on the self-taught artist Bill Traylor's striking drawings, which reveal the witty vitality of his vision. Nowhere is the ebullience of Traylor's work more apparent than in his multi-figure compositions, wherein negative space is fragmented by the angles of the outthrust legs and arms. This full-color catalog presents approximately sixty drawings by Traylor, along with three scholarly essays.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prestel (January 19, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 104 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3791351990
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3791351995
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.5 x 0.75 x 11.25 inches
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Susan Mitchell Crawley

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Susan Mitchell Crawley is an independent curator, scholar, and writer who specializes in the work of artists with little or no formal arts education. From 2003 to 2013 she served as Curator of Folk Art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, during which time the High was the only general museum in the United States with a full-time Folk Art curator. Her exhibitions of the paintings of Jimmy Lee Sudduth (for the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts) and of the sculpture of Ulysses Davis and their accompanying catalogs are considered the definitive expositions of the work of these two southern artists. During her tenure with the High, she also organized exhibitions of Bill Traylor's drawings and Louis Monza's prints, drawings, and sculpture as well as several groups shows from the museum's extensive collection and three complete re-installations of the Folk Art permanent collection galleries.

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This well packaged & promptly delivered book has delighted all the generations of folk in my life; from my 90 y/o Mom to my great-niece who is pushing 2. Traylor's art is so accessible yet intriguing with subtleties that can keep even the most skeptical or distracted viewer engaged.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a beautiful collection of Mr
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2016
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This is a beautiful collection of Mr. Traylor's work. The photos are clear and represent how they appear in real-life well. If you love "outsider art," this is definitely one to add to your collection.
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Great information and examples of his work
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