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Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts

6.0(1)20211h 15m1

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.

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Released
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—
Box office
$4.5K
Language
EN

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Director

Jeffrey Wolf

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • Premiere16 Apr 2021

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Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts was released on 16 April 2021.

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