Yeah I saw a show included his work at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta about ten years ago. Did the museum used to have a satellite section with photography on one floor and "folk art" on the other? I do remember an afternoon of epiphany with work by Traylor and others in one room and discovering for the first time the photographs of Harry Callahan in another.. michael
--- On Sat, 4/2/11, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Bill Traylor and Alberta Hunter > To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" > <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, April 2, 2011, 6:50 AM > > I've seen a lot of his work in the South - brilliant - > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Fung-Lin Hall wrote: > > > Bill Traylor was born a slave in 1854; after a > lifetime as a cotton > > laborer, destitute and living on a Montgomery, > Alabama, sidewalk, > > he began drawing. He was 83, and sold his work for > nickels. > > http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2011/04/01/bill-traylor-alberta-hunter/ > > > > Fung Lin Hall > > http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/ > > http://www.mutanteggplant.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NetBehaviour mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > > > == > email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > webpage http://www.alansondheim.org > music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qy.txt > == > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
