Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
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. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, both memories from plantation days and scenes of a radically changing urban culture. He made well over a thousand drawings and paintings between 1939-1942. This colorful, strikingly modernist work eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retrospective.
Year: 2021
Genre: Documentary
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Director: Jeffrey Wolf
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Crew: Jeffrey Wolf (Director), Eliott Taylor (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
Runtime: 75 minutes
Release: Apr 16, 2021
IMDb: 6.00/10 by 1 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
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Budget: 0
Revenue: 4
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