PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF WILLIAM A. FAGALY, SOLD TO BENEFIT PROSPECT NEW ORLEANS
BILL TRAYLOR (circa 1853-1949)
Self Portrait Striding
Details
BILL TRAYLOR (circa 1853-1949)
Self Portrait Striding
bears Charles Shannon label E-65 Single Figures Animated on reverse
green pencil on repurposed Blony box
11 1/4 x 8 3/8 in.
Executed circa 1939-42.
Provenance
Gasperi Folk Art Gallery, New Orleans Acquired from the above in 1983
Literature
Stephen Faircloth and Suzan Courtney, Enisled Visions: The Southern Non-Traditional Folk Artist (Mobile, 1987), cat. no. 81.
Exhibited
New Orleans, Louisiana, Fine Art Gallery, University of New Orleans; Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University; Memphis, Tennessee, Brooks Museum of Art, Of Visions and Visage: Portraits on Paper, 1 - 24 April 1984 (New Orleans), 8 - 28 June 1984 (Baton Rouge), 7 July - 19 August 1984 (Memphis). Mobile, Alabama, Fine Arts Museum of the South at Mobile, Enisled Visions: The Southern Non-Traditional Folk Artist, 1987. New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, Of Visions and Visage: Portraits on Paper, 2000.
In his collection inventory, William Fagaly remarks that he and other curators believe the figure in this drawing bears a strong resemblance to Traylor himself.