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PROPERTY FROM THE WILLIAM LOUIS-DREYFUS FOUNDATION
BILL TRAYLOR (CIRCA 1853-1949)
Two Figures with Pitchfork and Birds, 1939-1942
Details
BILL TRAYLOR (CIRCA 1853-1949)
Two Figures with Pitchfork and Birds, 1939-1942
bears label E-14 Geometric/Plant-Animal Form on reverse
black pencil and graphite on repurposed card
12 ½ x 15 ¼ in.
Two Figures with Pitchfork and Birds, 1939-1942
bears label E-14 Geometric/Plant-Animal Form on reverse
black pencil and graphite on repurposed card
12 ½ x 15 ¼ in.
Provenance
Hirschl and Adler Gallery, New York
Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York, 1994 (acquired from the above)
The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, Mount Kisco, New York, 2013 (gifted from the above)
Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York, 1994 (acquired from the above)
The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, Mount Kisco, New York, 2013 (gifted from the above)
Literature
Ricco Maresca Gallery, Bill Traylor: Observing Life (Ricco Maresca, 1997), no. 11.
Josef Helfenstein and Roxanne Stanulis, eds., Bill Traylor, William Edmondson, and the Modernist Impulse (Krannert Art Museum and the Menil Collection in association with the University of Washington Press, 2004), no. 15.
Leslie Umberger, Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor (Princeton, New Jersey, 2018), p. 177.
Josef Helfenstein and Roxanne Stanulis, eds., Bill Traylor, William Edmondson, and the Modernist Impulse (Krannert Art Museum and the Menil Collection in association with the University of Washington Press, 2004), no. 15.
Leslie Umberger, Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor (Princeton, New Jersey, 2018), p. 177.
Exhibited
New York, American Folk Art Museum, Self Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology, 10 March - 17 May, 1988.
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Krannert Art Museum; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art; New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem; and Houston, The Menil Collection, Bill Traylor, William Edmondson, and the Modernist Impulse, 22 October 2004 - 2 January 2005 (Urbana-Champaign), 1 February - 3 April 2005 (Birmingham), 20 April - 26 June 2005 (New York), 22 July - 2 October 2005 (Houston).
New York, American Folk Art Museum, Traylor in Motion: Wonders from New York Collections, 11 June - 22 September 2013.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, 28 September 2018 - 7 April 2019.
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Krannert Art Museum; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art; New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem; and Houston, The Menil Collection, Bill Traylor, William Edmondson, and the Modernist Impulse, 22 October 2004 - 2 January 2005 (Urbana-Champaign), 1 February - 3 April 2005 (Birmingham), 20 April - 26 June 2005 (New York), 22 July - 2 October 2005 (Houston).
New York, American Folk Art Museum, Traylor in Motion: Wonders from New York Collections, 11 June - 22 September 2013.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, 28 September 2018 - 7 April 2019.
Brought to you by
Cara Zimmerman
Head of Americana and Outsider Art
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