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Traylor, Bill, 1856-1949

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Personal name headingTraylor, Bill, 1856-1949
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1856-04-01
Death date1949-10-23
Place of birthBenton (Ala.)
Place of deathMontgomery (Ala.)
AffiliationPlantation of George Hartwell Traylor (Ala.)
Profession or occupationSlaves Painters Sharecroppers Folk artists African American artists
Found innuc88-118511: His Bill Traylor, 1854-1947, 1985 (hdg. on NN rept.: Traylor, Bill, 1854-1947)
Lively times and exciting events, the drawings of Bill Traylor, 1993: text (Lowndes Co. Ala. census records show Bill Traylor b. a slave in April 1856 on Benton, Ala. plantation of G. H. Traylor family)
Bill Traylor, 1854-1949, c1998: p. 177 (d. Oct. 23, 1949. St. Jude Hospital, Montgomery, Ala.)
African American National Biography, accessed September 17, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Traylor, Bill; slave, sharecropper/farm laborer, folk artist; born 01 April 1856 in Benton, Alabama, United States; born on the plantation of George Hartwell Traylor and remained on the plantation (until 1934); settled in Montgomery, Alabama (1936); began to draw at the age of 83; became friend with Charles Shannon (1939); produced between twelve hundred and fifteen hundred drawings (1939-1942); Shannon organized exhibition Bill Traylor-People's Artist (1940); left Montgomery and did not return (until 1946); continued to draw until he was placed in the Fraternal Hospital, Montgomery; died 23 October 1949 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States)