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Between Worlds features 155 of Traylor’s most important paintings and drawings; in the accompanying monograph, Umberger examines over two hundred works to provide the most in-depth study of the artist to date. The Smithsonian American Art Museum is the sole venue for this major retrospective.
- April 7, 2019
- September 27, 2018
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum just acquired several major works by Bill Traylor (ca. 1853–1949), an artist who was born into slavery and first began his creative life as an elderly man, after living and working primarily as a sharecropper.
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Oct 10, 2018 · His work began appearing in major museums. Now, nearly 70 years after his death in 1949 at about age 96, 155 drawings and paintings have been brought together for the biggest retrospective of his...
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The exhibition is accompanied by a monograph written by Umberger with an introduction by acclaimed artist Kerry James Marshall, published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with Princeton University Press. The 444-page publication features 205 of Traylor’s artworks along with 83 supplemental illustrations, city maps of Montgomery...
In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, the museum will premiere Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts(2018), a feature-length film by Jeffrey Wolf and Breakaway Films, with a public screening Sunday, Sept. 30, at 3 p.m. followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and Umberger; the film will be shown again Saturday, March 2, 2019, at 3 p.m. The museum’s...
The Smithsonian American Art Museum was among the first major museums to collect works by folk and self-taught artists and to advocate for a more inclusive collection that aims to tell an ever-expanding story of America through the art of its people. The museum began broadening traditional ideas of American art in 1970, when it acquired James Hampt...
This exhibition is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with support from ART MENTOR FOUNDATION LUCERNE, Elizabeth Broun, Faye and Robert Davidson, Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins, Josh Feldstein, Jocelin Hamblett, Herbert Waide Hemphill Jr. American Folk Art Fund, Just Folk/Marcy Carsey and Susan Baerwald, Lucas Kaempfer Foundation, Ma...
The Smithsonian American Art Museum celebrates the vision and creativity of Americans with artworks in all media spanning more than four centuries. Its National Historic Landmark building is located at Eighth and F streets N.W., above the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metrorail station. Museum hours are 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily (closed Dec. 25). Admiss...
Between Worlds features 155 of Traylor’s most important paintings and drawings; in the accompanying monograph, Umberger examines over two hundred works to provide the most in-depth study of the artist to date. The Smithsonian American Art Museum is the sole venue for this major retrospective. Learn More.
Oct 1, 2018 · Bill Traylor, the subject of a stunning retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in Washington, D.C., “Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor,” was about twelve years a...
A new gallery exhibition celebrates his singular point of view. A rtists hold a unique position as witnesses and real-time recorders of the cultural and geographical periods in which they practice, a trusim no better illustrated than in the art of Bill Traylor.
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