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Bill Traylor : drawings from the collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

by Bill Traylor, Margaret Lynne Ausfeld, Susan Mitchell Crawley, Leslie H. Paisley, Fred Barron, Jeffrey Wolf

This catalogue features approximately sixty full-colour drawings and three scholarly essays exploring the simplified folk art of a self-taught artist from Montgomery, Alabama, active during the late Great Depression.

Accession 12270 ISBN 9783791351995 Publisher DelMonico Books
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