William 'Bill' Traylor was an African-American self-taught artist from Lowndes County, Alabama. Born into slavery, Traylor spent the majority of his life after emancipation as a sharecropper. However, today Traylor is regarded as one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. Traylor was born in April 1853, in Benton, Alabama to Sally […]
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