ID 949423
Lot 903 | BILL TRAYLOR (circa 1853-1949)
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 100 000
Untitled (Lynching)
bearing Charles Shannon label E-33 / EXCITING EVENTS on reverse
tempera and graphite on repurposed Baby Ruth box
11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (29.8 x 21.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1939-42.
Provenance
Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1996
Literature
Mechal Sobel, Painting a Hidden Life: The Art of Bill Traylor (Baton Rouge, 2009), 109-112, fig. 4.6, illustrated.
Leslie Umberger, Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor (Washington, D.C., 2019), pp. 251, 344, pl. 196, illustrated.
Exhibited
Little Rock, Arkansas, The Arkansas Arts Center; New York, Luise Ross Fine Art, Bill Traylor (1854-1947), 14 October - 28 November 1982 (Little Rock), 13 February - 3 April 1983 (New York).
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