Blacksmith Shop
Gift of Eugenia and Charles Shannon, 1995
Catalogue
- Year
- 1939
- Medium
- Pencil on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 13 3/8 x 26 1/4 in. (34 x 66.7 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Bill Traylor
Artist
Painting
Born into slavery, Bill Traylor spent most of his life as a sharecropper. At the age of 85, rheumatic and homeless on the streets of Montgomery, he began recording his personal struggles and observations with a distinctive visual lexicon of pictographic silhouettes. The 1,500 pieces he produced before his death at the age of 96 comprise an expressive chronicle of life in the Jim Crow south and an oeuvre of transcendent aesthetic allure.
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1939 · Pencil on board
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Bill Traylor
- Year
- 1939
- Medium
- Pencil on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 13 3/8 x 26 1/4 in. (34 x 66.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1939-011168
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified