ID 883671
Lot 54 | BILL TRAYLOR (circa 1853-1949)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 100 000
Man in a Blue Chair with a Pipe
bearing Charles Shannon label -86 SINGLE FIGURES ANIMATED on reverse
graphite and tempera on repurposed card
11 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.
Provenance
Charles Shannon, Montgomery, Alabama
Joseph H. Wilkinson, Chicago, Illinois
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 21 January 2006, lot 361
Literature
Michael Bonesteel, Exhibition catalogue, Bill Traylor Drawings, From the Collection of Joseph H. Wilkinson and an Anonymous Chicago Collector (Chicago, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, 1988) p. 6, no. 2, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Bill Traylor: Drawings (Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center, 1990) cat. no. 41.
Exhibited
Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center; Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Delta Fine Arts Center; Raleigh, North Carolina, The North Carolina Museum of Art; Louisville, Kentucky, J.B. Speed Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Moore College of Art; Nashville, Tennessee, Fine Arts Center, Cheekwood; Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Dunlap Art Gallery/Regina Public Library; Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center, Bill Traylor Drawings, 6 February - 16 April 1988 (Chicago), 24 April - 31 May 1988 (Winston-Salem), 25 June - 28 August 1988 (Raleigh), 27 February - 8 May 1989 (Philadelphia), 8 January - 11 March 1990 (Nashville), 28 March - 6 May 1990 (Regina), 11 May - 1 July 1990 (Boston).
| Artist: | William Traylor (1854 - 1949) |
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| Applied technique: | Graphite, Painted, Tempera |
| Medium: | Stone |
| Artist: | William Traylor (1854 - 1949) |
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| Applied technique: | Graphite, Painted, Tempera |
| Medium: | Stone |
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