Russell G. Jones
Movie Info. This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton ...
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- Breakaway Films NY
Apr 16, 2021 · Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts: Directed by Jeffrey Wolf. With Russell G. Jones, Jason Samuels Smith, Greg Tate, Sharon Washington. An inventive feature documentary capturing the vivid life of Bill Traylor, who in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of Montgomery, produced a body of ...
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- Documentary
- Jeffrey Wolf
- 2021-04-16
Apr 16, 2021 · The self-taught painter Bill Traylor was clearly such a master, with his abstract depictions of his life experiences during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow America; memories articulated with long-limbed human figures, oval dogs, sketched out crowds, and squabbling couples, fondly described by an art expert here as "beautiful simplicity."
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Apr 9, 2021 · Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts is an inventive feature documentary capturing the vivid life of Bill Traylor, who in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of Montgomery, produced a body of extraordinary art. Born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, Traylor witnessed ...
Apr 16, 2021 · The film offers an insightful window into the jagged wonder of the bracingly modernist drawings he etched onto scraps of cardboard in his late 80s, when he was at the end of his life, looking back...
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Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts. View in iTunes. Available on iTunes. This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama.
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