French Academic Painter, 1863-1942  Related Paintings of Muenier, Jules-Alexis :. | A Tale from the Decameron | The Boy-s King Arthur | town at sunset saint tropez | det fos ett barnde | The Complain of the Watch dfh |
Related Artists:
Master of the Life of Saint John the Baptist
Italian Byzantine Style Painter, 14th Century
Ingeborg Westfelt-Eggertz
painted Morning - Trouville in 1855-1936
Bill Traylor
African-American Folk Artist, ca.1856-1949 was a self-taught artist born an Alabama slave. Unable to read or write, he first began drawing in 1939 at the age of eighty-three. He worked full-time for the next four years to produce over eighteen hundred drawings. He used a straight edge to create geometric silhouettes of human and animal figures which he then filled in with crayon and tempera. He is known for his intriguing use of pattern versus flat color and a remarkably intuitive sense of space. He started hanging his works on a nearby fence to entertain the locals. One of his first fans was Charles Shannon, a painter who introduced Traylor to the New South regionalist artists and organized two shows of his work before his death. Since then, Traylor has become one of the most highly sought-after outsider artists.