Details
                                        
                                            BILL TRAYLOR (CIRCA 1853-1949)
 UNTITLED (PITCHER AND BOWL)
 tempera and graphite on card
 15 x 13 in.
 Painted circa 1939-1942.
 
                                        
                                    
                                    
                                        Provenance
                                        
                                            Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York 
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York, 1992 
Gifted from the above to The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, Mount Kisco, 2013
                                        
                                    
                                    
                                        Literature
                                        
                                            Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco, Bill Traylor: His Art – His Life (New York, 1991), p. 131.
Exhibition catalogue, Bill Traylor: An American Prodigy (New York, 1997), no. 18.
Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco, Bill Traylor: Observing Life (New York, 1997), pl. 18. 
Josef Helfenstein, Roman Kurzmeyer, eds., exhibition catalogue, Bill Traylor 1854–1949: Deep Blues (New Haven, 1999), p. 69, no. 23, illustrated. 
Josef Helfenstein, Roman Kurzmeyer, eds., exhibition catalogue, Bill Traylor, William Edmondson, and the Modernist Impulse (Champaign, Illinois, 2004), no. 8, illustrated. 
Lynne Cooke et al., exhibition catalogue, Outliers and American Vanguard Art (Chicago, 2018), p. 193, pl. 80, illustrated.
                                        
                                    
                                    
                                        Exhibited
                                        
                                            New York, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, Bill Traylor: An American Prodigy, 20 November 24-December 1997.
Bern, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Bern, Deep Blues, 4 November 1998-31 January 1999; also, Cologne, Museum Ludwig, 26 February-16 May 1999; Burlington, Vermont, Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont, 17 June-22 August 1999. 
Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois, Bill Traylor, William Edmondson, and the Modernist Impulse, 22 October 2004-2 January 2005; also, Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, 1 February-3 April 2005; Harlem, New York, Studio Museum in Harlem, 27 April-3 July 2005; Houston, Texas, The Menil Collection, 22 July-2 October 2005.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Outliers and American Vanguard Art, 28 January-18 March 2018, no. 80; also, Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum, 22 June-30 September 2018; Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum of Art, 18 November 2018-17 March 2019.