Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bill Traylor was born into slavery on a Benton, Alabama cotton plantation in 1853, but he died 96 years later as an artist then ...

Blues, silhouettes, two-dimensional figures at play. This artist created mystical experiences from whatever scraps he could find. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If every picture tells a story, the body of work displayed in the hauntingly intriguing documentary "Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts" ...

Toward the end of Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts, one of Traylor’s great-granddaughters says she’s glad that he is finally “getting his reward.” Broad appreciation of Traylor’s artistic talent came ...

The outsider artist Bill Traylor hits a sweet spot for documentary treatment. On the one hand, those within the art world know and generally revere his work; he was the subject of a major solo show at ...

Bill Traylor was an American painter and one of the most celebrated Outsider artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. With his unique figurative style, Traylor depicted a lost era of the rural agrarian ...

An inventive feature documentary capturing the vivid life of Bill Traylor, who in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of Montgomery, produced a ...

Sometimes the circumstances of an artist’s life are as inseparable from their vision as the dancer from the dance. So it is with the remarkable story told in the new film Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts.

Blues, silhouettes, two-dimensional figures at play. This artist created mystical experiences from whatever scraps he could find. By Glenn Kenny A show at David Zwirner Gallery, with the William Louis ...

Jeffrey Wolf celebrates the work of Bill Traylor, who survived slavery to become an artist in his mid-80s. By John DeFore An invaluable addition to our still-developing understanding of an artist ...